'Parents of Estonia'
has organised a three day event to take place in Tallin, Estonia, on August 23 - 25, 2015.

Keynote speaker: Ruby Harrold-Claesson, Swedish lawyer and president of 'The Nordic Committee for Human Rights - For the Protection of Family Rights in the Nordic countries', (NKMR/NCHR).

Itinerary

Lecture, August 24, 2015
Hotel Europa, Tallin, Estonia

ROUNDTABLE

The Best Interests of Children: Have they been well served in Europe?


Venue: European Parliament, Brussels, June 2, 2015

The Roundtable is divided into two blocks. The first block will be between 11.00-12.00 and will focus on the child protection systems across Europe, the way they take children and the measures that should be developed to prevent this from happening.
The second block would be then from 12.00-13.00 and it will concentrate on the topic of forced adoption and the way this issue could be addressed on the European level.
The seminar and Q&A session that will be included in each block will be hosted by MEP Tomas Zdechovský and he will also sum up the outcomes of the seminar in the last 10 minutes (12.50-13.00).

Att sätta barnets bästa först i varje beslut om placering utanför sin familj

Under sin plenarsession i Strasbourg den 22 april 2015 uttryckte Europarådets parlamentariska församling (PACE) oro över kränkningar av barns rättigheter i vissa länder, då socialtjänsten tvångsomhändertar barn och placerar dem i fosterhem på ett alltför obetänksamt sätt. Detta är desto mer tragiskt när besluten är oåterkalleliga, till exempel i fall av adoption utan föräldrarnas samtycke, betonade parlamentarikerna.

Den 26 januari 2015 antog PACE kommitté för sociala frågor, hälsa och hållbar utveckling, betänkandet som författades av Rysslands delegat, Olga Borzova.
Betänkandet, i sin tur, har sin upprinnelse i den internationella konferensen i Prag som ägde rum den 3 oktober 2014. Pragkonferensen sammankallades av Slovakiens agent i Europadomstolen, Marica Pirošíková, och den byggde dels på hennes egna erfarenheter i fallet med the Boor brothers, klagomålen som 32 nordiska jurister och andra professionella samt Rysslands barnombudsman, Pavel Astakhov, har väckt i Europarådet sedan 2012.

When is it ok to remove a child from her or his birth family?
“Children have the right to be protected from all types of violence, abuse and neglect. But children also have the right not to be separated from their parents against their will, except when the competent authorities determine that such separation is necessary for the best interests of the child,” Olga Borzova (Russia, NR) says in her report, adopted yesterday by PACE's Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development.

Interview following Ms Olga BORZOVA's, Russian Federation, Report to PACE, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
January 26, 2015