ESTRASBURGO (10 de septiembre de 2019) - Hoy, la Gran Sala del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos ha declarado que Noruega ha violado el derecho fundamental a la vida familiar...
Published on 11 Sep 2019STRASBOURG (10 September 2019) – Today, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights found that Norway violated the fundamental right to family life through the actions of...
Published on 10 Sep 2019STRASBOURG (5 July 2019) – Does a government have the right to take children away from their families without sufficient reason? On 4 July, ADF International filed an intervention in...
Published on 05 Jul 2019
German authorities breach family’s right to homeschool by forcibly removing children from their home What’s at Stake: The right of parents to freely educate their children at home The right...
Published on 05 May 2017
Summary The UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) system is used to assess the human rights situations in all 193 Member States by other Member States. It gives Member States the...
Published on 04 Apr 2017
Swedish government keeps homeschooled child from his parents for six years and counting What’s at Stake Promoting the best interest of the child Parental rights Summary As Annie and Christer...
Published on 18 Nov 2013
ADF International is a faith-based legal advocacy organization that protects fundamental freedoms and promotes the inherent dignity of all people before national and international institutions. As well as having ECOSOC...
Published on 14 Oct 2019ADF International is a faith-based legal advocacy organization that protects fundamental freedoms and promotes the inherent dignity of all people before national and international institutions. As well as having ECOSOC...
Published on 14 Oct 2019ADF International is a faith-based legal advocacy organization that protects fundamental freedoms and promotes the inherent dignity of all people before national and international institutions. As well as having ECOSOC...
Published on 25 Jul 2019
ADF International
Faith-based legal advocacy organization that protects fundamental freedoms and promotes the inherent dignity of all people.
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View All »Norway’s Barnevernet and The Future of Parental Rights
In recent weeks, it has been reported that the Norwegian authorities have taken permanent custody of three American children from their Christian parents. Natalya Shutakova, a US citizen, and her...
Published on 23 Oct 2019The Wunderlich ruling and Germany’s ban on home-schooling
On 10 January 2019, the European Court of Human Rights handed down a judgement on the case of Wunderlich v Germany. Its implications represent a disastrous challenge to the integrity...
Published on 16 Jan 2019Families charged for pulling children out of school over Pentecost long weekend
- School-aged children are legally obliged to attend school in Germany. And parents who try to take their children out of school without permission, regardless of the reason, face prosecution....
Published on 26 May 2018