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MEP calls for international search of Lithuanian boy taken from family by Norway’s child services
Member of the European Parliament Valentinas Mazuronis has addressed the Lithuanian minister of the interior, requesting to find a Lithuanian child who was taken away from his mother in Norway. […]
Society
Norway’s ambassador to Lithuania speaks out on child custody controversy involving Norwegian child services
Norway‘s Ambassador to Lithuania Dag Malmer Halvorsen says that children are rarely taken from their Lithuanian families in Norway. […]
Society
Polish investigator who kidnaps Lithuanian children from Norway’s child services: We did things we cannot talk about
It is a public secret what Krzysztof Rutkowski, a Polish private investigator, does for a living. He is helping people who have had their parental rights restricted by Norway‘s child welfare services to get their children back. Rutkowski tells DELFI that he has worked with families from Lithuania, too. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian diplomats ask Norwegian authorities to allow to see child that was taken from mother
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway has promised Lithuanian Ambassador in Oslo Izolda Bričkovskienė to put every effort to officially confirm that a seven-year-old Lithuanian boy who was returned from Sweden is indeed in Norway. The boy’s mother attempted to take her son out of Norway, where the two lived. Swedish diplomats have said that Lithuania was not informed about the return of the child because his place of residence has not been declared in Lithuania. […]
Global LT
Norway’s Ambassador Ulland: Child welfare is top consideration for Norwegian institutions, regardless of citizenship
The Lithuanian media has lately caused some stir with stories about Lithuanian expatriates in Norway who have had their children “taken away” by childcare services. Norway’s Ambassador to Lithuania Leif Arne Ulland says that his country takes children’s welfare very seriously and makes no distinction between Norwegian families and those from other countries residing there. However, he adds, no child can be taken away from the family without a court ruling. […]
Society
44 child adoptions concluded in Lithuania this year
Citizens of Lithuania adopted 44 children over nearly seven months of this year, the Ministry of Welfare and Labour Ministry said. […]