In
memory of Margit Eliasson
Margit, a friend and former board member of the NCHR
Margit Eliasson
delivering a speech at the NCHR/NKMR:s symposium in Göteborg on June 12, 1998
Dear Margit, it is
always so difficult to say goodbye to a good and faithful friend and companion
in the struggle for Family rights in the Nordic countries. Margit, spokesperson
for The Grandmother's Rebellion (Mormorsupproret) and board member of NCHR, and I, president of
the NCHR, have fought side by side for children and their parents and
relatives, human rights: their right to respect for their private and family
life. The right to respect for everyone's private and family life is a right
guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European
Convention on Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of
the Child.
Margit was a member of the steering committee of the NCHR for only one year.
She resigned because she had had her first heart attack. Margit became a board
member of the NCHR after she stayed her duties as spokesperson for The
Grandmother's Rebellion, which she led with great success for at least ten
years. It was Margit and her Grandmother's Rebellion which in 1997 gave
Sweden's children the right - a right which has always been natural for
children of all other countries in the world - to live with their grandparents
and other relatives if they should lose their parents.
Margit was one of the speakers at NCHR's first symposium in Gothenburg in June
1998. On behalf of the Board and members of NCHR I wish extend a big THANK YOU
to you Margit for your invaluable work for Sweden's unfortunate children, those
who are removed unnecessarily from the care of their parents by the social
services and placed in foster homes among often unsuitable people, although
they have grandparents and other relatives who are willing and able to take
care of them.
Dear Margit, I already miss your pleasant voice when you would call and say,
'Hey Ruby, it is Margit". That was the signal that there was something
interesting to follow. You used to call and tell about interesting cases of
unnecessary taking of children into public care and about maternal and paternal
grandparents and other relatives' struggle against unnecessary government
intervention in the lives of their children, grandchildren or relatives. You
used to call and tell about interesting newspaper articles that I was able to
link to the NCHR's website. If the articles were not on the Internet you gave
me the names and phone numbers so that I could contact them to obtain their
permission to publish their articles directly on the NCHR's website.
You have been silenced as a friend, companion in the struggle for a common goal
and source of information, Margit, but you have not disappeared out into thin
air. You have left clear traces in Sweden's recent history through your
voluntary commitment as a spokesperson for The Grandmother's Rebellion and as a
board member of the NCHR.
Once again, I want to say a big THANK YOU to you Margit for your friendship and
for your invaluable work for Sweden's unfortunate children.
I thank you Margit that I have had the privilege of having got to know you, to
meet your husband, Lennart, your daughter, Carina and your grandson, Dennis.
Your friend,
Ruby
Ruby Harrold-Claesson,
Lawyer
President of the NCHR/NKMR
April 15, 2007
Till Minne av
Margit Eliasson
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