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Finland rejects cooperation with Russia regarding children’s rights
Published: 16 July, 2010, 20:29
Edited: 20 July, 2010, 22:35
TAGS: Children, Conflict, Russia, Europe, Human rights, Law
Finland rejected cooperation with Russia to protect the rights of children from mixed marriages. Russia’s children’s rights ombudsman, Pavel Astakhov, called the Finn’s decision “a serious blunder of international law.”
“What confuses us the most is Finland’s rejection – and what we received today from the Foreign Ministry is an official rejection – to sign a bilateral agreement between Russia and Finland on providing help and cooperation on family and civil issues,” Pavel Astakhov said.
However, a number of conflicts that involve children from mixed families show that the agreement is of great importance and its inappropriate to solve such issues based on national laws, Astakhov pointed out. Besides, Finnish law allows the taking away of a child from the parents “with no grounds and trial”, the ombudsman added.
Russia and Finland are both members of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child which, among all, implies improvement of bilateral cooperation, Astakhov noted.
In a recent conflict, Finish social workers took away 10-year-old Julia Putkonen from her Russian mother after the girl called the children’s welfare service and said the mother didn’t give her chocolate raisins.
Another incident saw 7-year-old Robert Rantala removed from his Russian mother and Finnish father following his claims at school he was going to leave for Russia with his mother. The boy also allegedly claimed his mother struck him.
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Why can't Russia sign to the Hague International accord to protect children's rights, like Finland has? Finland would never sign a treaty with Russia allowing Russian parents to physically abuse their children in Finland... as is the law in Russia permits.
Fremder: I don't see this as a feeling issue, but one of logic: 1. In countries with free and non governmentally controlled media the liers eventually will get caught, which makes it more trustworthy for me to trust Finnish officials. 2. Every single Russian person I know don't trust their leaders. And they naturally must know their leaders better than I, so I should take that in account. 3. Astahov was educated by KGB. KGB (or any other intelligency service) is not firstly known from their trustworthiness. So it's rather simple for me to to pick which I should trust. Are you biased and only trust Russian official because they're Russian? Or what is the reason you should consider Astahov more trustworthy here (or anywhere)?
July 17, 2010, 01:41, Fremder wrote > I wonder how normal it is considered in Finland when a child calls for help of an official institution if the mom does not give her chocolate raisins. Don’t parents sometimes say NO to their children?