“We need a child welfare that works to a greater extent with prevention and support measures at home, as well as using the children’s family or network when care is the only solution” writes Norwegian MP, Orsal Johansen in email interview with Filter Nyheter.
Category: India
Norwegian MP Tears Into Their Child Welfare System
The most suspect and frustrating of all in child protection cases I hold to be the absence of any requirement of proof, of stated and reasoned cause, or of concrete answers. Allegations are made without any form of documentation, just expressions like “we think” and “our assessment”. The County Committees accept vague, undefined claims and arguments, and do not demand anything in the way of quality control and concrete justification for the CWS’s conclusions….They have in my view become a state within the state, they do not act according to existing laws and rules. It seems to me that they have one goal only: as many children as possible taken into care. This is not how the CWS should work.
Protecting Indian Childhood by Dr. Nandita Chaudhary, 25 September 2017
Cultural psychologist and child development expert, Dr Nandita Chaudhary, argues that blindly adopting child-related measures advocated by international agencies will sabotage the welfare of Indian children. In this paper, she makes the case for India to develop its own model of child welfare, that takes the due consideration of local ideologies, circumstances and ways of living of children and families across the country.
Report on Indian and Indian-Origin Children Confiscated by US Child Protection Agencies, August 2017
Suranya Aiyar, a New Delhi-based lawyer, who has been working on a pro bono basis with families facing child protection …
Unfeeling U.S. agencies confiscate children from Indian parents by Siddharth Tiwari, The Sunday Guardian, September 2017
Legal experts, doctors, and investigative journalists alleged that the US child protection agencies were biased and used flawed techniques to detect abuse.
Gujarati-origin children taken for forced adoption in the UK, 2015
The tragic story of a Gujarati-origin family whose children were taken for forced adoption in the UK.
Eastern Child, Western Custody by Sumedha Sarvadaman, Sirf News, January 2015
This was a report about a Gujarati-origin family whose children were removed for forced adoption by British Social Services in 2015.
Norway NRI kids row: The Untold Story by Sagarika Bhattacharya, Pravasi Today, May 2012
SAGARIKA BHATTACHARYA met her one-year-old daughter Aishwarya and three-year-old son Abhigyan on Wednesday. PRAVASI TODAY presents her version of what happened in Norway. Published in May 2012 by Pravasi Today.
The Confiscation of the Bhattacharya Children in Norway, A Case Study
Among the well-known jurists who came to together to work on this study were Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice AP Shah, who had recently retired. The study is based on the County Committee and District Court orders and other official record of the case as sent to the mother by the Norwegian authorities.
Petition to Indian National Human Rights Commission, October 2012
On 12 October 2012, a group of leading jurists, human rights lawyers, academics, child experts and women’s rights activists filed …