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On 4 July, ADF International filed an intervention in Bodnariu v. Norway at the European Court of Human Rights. In 2015, the five children of the Romanian Bodnariu family were taken away from their parents by Barnevernet, the Norwegian…

Norwegian media reports that prosecutors in Norway prosecuted Marius and Ruth Bodnariu for violence against their children. The information was confirmed by Ruth Bodnariu’s lawyer, Ingrid Breistein, according to News.ro. The lawyer, Ruth…

Bodnariu family hs announced on Friday that it has reached an agreement with the municipality of Naustdal to get all five kids back home and called for observing the need for ‘calm and undisturbed privacy’ of the family in the coming days.…

The case of Bodnariu family, whose five children have been seized by the Norwegian child body echoed around the world during the weekend. A global protest was announced on Facebook for Saturday, April 16th, by a support group “Norway…

The baby of Bodnariu couple can return to his parents, according to a Norwegian court ruling. At the same time, the parents have the right to see their two elder sons twice a week, instead of once, the brother of Marius Bodnariu told Gandul…

Over 2,000 people marched in Sibiu on Saturday in support of Bodnariu family and of the other two families whose children have been taken away by Barnevernet, the Norwegian child welfare. They hold placards displaying their support messages…

The Romanian parliamentary delegation in Norway has ‘imperatively’ called on the local governor, where the Bodnariu family lives, to review the placement order for the children, allegedly disproportionate and seen as an abusive…

The Bodnariu case is not unique in Norway. The family Avramescu Cruz has seen their two children taken away into care, and although they have won the case in court, the parents have not got any children back a year after the court’s ruling,…

Some 5,000 people have held a mass meeting in Suceava (north-eastern Romania) on Saturday, in support of Bodnariu family in Norway after the Norwegian social services have taken in December the Bodnariu family’s five children and have…

The Bodnariu family’s case in Norway, separated from the five children in December, has sparked extensive debate in the public and triggered a wave of reactions in the Romanian society and beyond. In an exclusive interview for Ziare.com,…