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Vatican for Parental Rights
In a significant move to support the rights of home-schooling parents worldwide, the Vatican has issued a statement to the United Nations.   The statement says governments “should respect the choices that parents make for their children and avoid attempts at ideological indoctrination.” Jeremiah Lorrig of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) says this is especially important in more restrictive countries. “In Sweden, for example, home-school parents have had their children taken away from them,” Lorrig notes. “In Germany, there was a story about a year ago where a family… had immigrated to Germany. They had to flee back to Iran...
Interview with Swedish Homeschooler in Exile
March 23, 2012: An interview with Jonas Himmelstrand, president of the Swedish Home Educators Association, on the dire situation for homeschoolers in Sweden. Read full story...
Call to Action: Email Your Swedish Embassy
February 14, 2012: The homeschool situation in Sweden is rapidly deteriorating. Swedish families request urgent help from their fellow homeschoolers around the world and call for a massive email campaign to Swedish Embassies. Read full story...
Swedish Pol to Social Services Minister: Take Homeschooled Kids!
January 17, 2012: Sweden is moving swiftly toward complete intolerance of home education. Read full story...
Hoping to End Swedish Discrimination
Problems continue to mount for a Swedish home-schooling family that is fighting authorities for the right to keep their child, as officials are now trying to permanently terminate the parental rights of the family. (See earlier story) (previous HNN article) Swedish police seized Christer and Annie Johansson’s seven-year-old son, Domenic, in 2009 as the family boarded a plane to move to India. Authorities claim the Johanssons were neglecting and isolating their son by home schooling him. Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney Roger Kiska is defending the family in the European Court of Human Rights, which has not been friendly to the couple so...
Homeschool Parents to Lose Children Permanently
From HSLDA: ACTION NEEDED: Swedish officials on the Island of Gotland are seeking to terminate the parental rights of homeschool parents Christer and Annie Johansson. The latest development in this monumental homeschool rights case started when the state seized the parents’ 7-year-old son in June 2009. Domenic, now 9 years old, has been held in state foster care for more than 24 months. … “The government shouldn’t abduct and imprison children simply because it doesn’t like homeschooling. That’s bad enough. But now the state is going even further by attempting to get the parents out of the way altogether,” said...
Officials Seek to Terminate Johansson Parenthood
October 7, 2011: HSLDA is asking all who care about families and homeschooling to again intervene on behalf of Annie and Christer Johansson, who may soon lose any right to parenting their son, Domenic. Read full story...
Young Swedish Politicians Defend Homeschooling
October 3, 2011: Young Swedish politicians defended homeschooling in Svenska Dagbladet, the largest national conservative newspaper in Sweden. Read full story...
Fight or Flee
September 21, 2011: Liberty magazine provides in-depth coverage on the impact of Sweden’s new education law, which took effect July 1. Read full story...
Finland is a Model
August 21, 2011: Finnish newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet highlights homeschool freedom in Finland—in stark contrast to neighboring Sweden—and interviews HSLDA’s director of international relations, Michael Donnelly. Read full story at HSLDA...
Criminal School
August 10, 2011: The Swedish political magazine Neo interviews Swedish homeschoolers and HSLDA’s own Michael Donnelly to understand the nation’s antagonistic policies toward homeschooling....
Swedish Magazine Highlights the UNCRC
August 3, 2011: Neo, a Swedish “classical liberal magazine,” provides in-depth coverage of the UNCRC—the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child—and recent developments in the Scandinavian nation....
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