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European Court of Human Rights Tuesday 24th October 2000

Case of Joep ZANDER

v. the Netherlands

NL

http://huixen.daxis.nl/zander/facts.htm for facts on the case

http://www.echr.coe.int for ECHR site

zander@daxis.nl

Post-audience statement in solidarity with Joep Zander and many others fighting for their children's rights to both parents around Europe today

The case of Joep Zander highlights how unequal our children's rights to both parents really are. A loving father and daughter ruthlessly pursued through the courts over the years until they totally lose contact with each other, and their love turns to pain.

REAL equal rights to both parents are now needed to stop society tearing itself apart. The State must stop attempting to act as an authority on children's interests, simply because two parents separate and go to court. It is true that most parents do not go to court. This is because most parents recognize they HAVE NO RIGHT TO STOP THEIR CHILDREN SEEING THE OTHER PARENT. It is parents who believe they have SOLE rights over children who are reinforced by the present system.

In this system, bureaucratic devices, such as delays, are causing the State itself to abuse children, and break the law. Forced separation from a parent is one of the worst forms of emotional abuse a child can suffer. Yet every day, throughout European, thousands of children are separated, permanently, from loving parents, often simply by bureaucratic inertia.

The State has grown callous and indifferent to human emotional reality - it is this indifference which is brutalising large sectors of society. Children do not have authority to speak for themselves, they do not have the vote, they do not even have the choice of what they are taught to believe. Adults do these things for them. Time and time again it has been shown that two loving parents are the greatest safeguard a child has, but the State seems determined to remove this security from most children who cross its path.

The European Court of Human Rights has a name to live up to - in simple cases of clear emotional abuse, by the State, of families such as that of Joep Zander, it has to decide whether to think the unthinkable and defend clear human-rights law, or whether to defend the legal bureaucracy it is part of itself. When making its decision it should remind itself that, in constitutional democracies, ALL laws and procedures have to be consistent with the basic constitutional rights which underpin them. If not, these laws are no longer legally tenable and must change.

name

 

group / website

email

Alain GERARD*

F

Parti des Enfants du Monde

 

Anson ALLEN

UK

Chair of UK EPP www.equalparenting.org

anson@euphony.net

A.H.J.M. BERNARDS

NL

Dwaze Vaders

 

Ben DROSTHAGEN*

Diana DROSTHAGEN*

NL

Pdt Comm. Platform SCJF

www.platform-scjf.nl

b.vondrosthagen@wxs.nl

Claude APFFEL*

F

independent

clo2.apffel@wanadoo.fr

Denis PAOLINI

F

SOS enlevement d'enfants franco-allemand

http://perso.club-internet.fr/sosenlev/

dpao98@yahoo.fr

Dominique BAYLION*

F

SOS PAPA Alsace www.sospapa.net

d.baylion@worldonline.fr

Gerhard HANENKAMP*

D

www.gabnet.com

brain@gabnet.com

Gerrit ten BROEK*

NL

http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~g.tenbroek

g.tenbroek@chello.nl

Ghislain DUCHATEAU*

B

BGMK

ghislain.duchateau@pandora.be

Gilbert BAREYT*

 

Président, Intl. Deleg. Parti des Enfants du Monde

fax: 0033 384 97 00 22

Ipe SMIT

NL

Platform SCJF

www.platform-scjf.nl

ipesmit@worldonline.nl

Johann WEY*

CH

VeV www.vev.ch

vev@vev.ch

Julian FITZGERALD*

GB

www.familyroutes.org

fried@aesops.f9.co.uk

Kurt SCHLANERT

Thomas KRIEGSCH*

D

 ZahlVater www.zahlvater.de

schlanert@zahlvater.de

admin@zahlvater

Michel DUDRAGNE*

F

Président, Parti des Enfants du Monde

fax: 0033 3 80 42 12 33

Olivier HEUZE*

F

Parti des Enfants du Monde

oheuze@chez.com

Philippe PAQUAY*

B

www.paquay.org

philippepaquay@hotmail.com

René KELLER

CH

VeV Argovie www.vev.ch

renekeller@skynet.ch

Robert VAN ALTENA*

NL

Platform SCJF www.platform-scjf.nl

 

Truus BARENDSE*

NL

vice-Pdt Platform SCJF

t.p.barendse@worldonline.nl

Ursula KODJOE

D

Psychologue

ukodjoe@aol.com

 

Case of:

Joep ZANDER*

 

 

NL

 

 

http://huixen.daxis.nl/zander/facts.htm for facts on the case

 

 

zander@daxis.nl

 

Tuesday 24th October 2000

*Signatories

please sign by return email if you wish.

 

Comments added:

approximately 50% of children of separated parents do not see one of their parents any more, from one to three years into the separation

Joep Zander 


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