If you live in Norway, you have likely heard about "barnevernet"—the Child Welfare Services—even if you don't have children. This public agency with the...
13 months ago

The film is based on a book by a real-life heroine, Sagarika Bhattacharya, whose children were taken away from her in 2011, who fought Barnevernet.
20 months ago

The Rani Mukerji starrer Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway is based on the story of an Indian woman who fought the Norway government for the custody of her children.
20 months ago

the story starts in 2015 with the very public removal of the five Bodnariu children—then aged nine to only three months—from their parents by the Barnevernet...
61 months ago

Protesters feel that this well-funded government agency is a bit too eager to separate children from their families and place them under foster care.
80 months ago

The Norwegian Child Protection Service 'Barnevernet' has been an ongoing cause for protests around the world as the institution takes children away from their...
94 months ago

The Child Welfare Service (Barnevernet) in Naustdal Municipality has agreed to return the five children it took from Marius and Ruth Bodnariu, the couple's...
101 months ago

The Bodnariu family's ordeal ends, but advocates vow to keep fighting for reforms in Norway and Europe.
101 months ago

Protesters around the world and leading Norwegian professionals say Norway's social workers are often too quick to separate children from their families.
103 months ago

An extraordinary row has erupted over the removal by Norway's child welfare services of the five children of a Pentecostal Christian couple.
108 months ago