Childcare

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Norway Hague Convention approval to allow children to return to Lithuania for care

Norway has ratified the Hague Convention on the protection of children and on cooperation on international adoptions, and this will…

9 years ago
  • Society

No orphanages in Vilnius by 2020, authorities say

Vilnius authorities have pledged to work hard over the next five years in order to reduce the number of infants…

9 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Norwegian Embassy hires PR firm to tackle bad press in Lithuania

Following bad press that Norway's child welfare services received in Lithuania for restricting parenting rights of a Lithuanian mother, the…

10 years ago
  • Politics

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…

10 years ago
  • 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. [...]

10 years ago
  • 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…

10 years ago
  • 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…

10 years ago
  • 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…

10 years ago
  • 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…

10 years ago