Children's rights advocate dies
The man who is famed with starting the international movement for the post of Children's Obudsman died yesterday.
Anders Bratholm, a Norwegian Professor in Law, wrote in 1969 that children were a large but vulnerable group in society and that they did not have a organisation or person to give them a voice, like other groups have. He concluded that children and young people need a obudsman to speak up for them.
It was over a decade later that Norway established the the world's first Ombudsman for Children in 1981.
There are now Obudspersons and Children's Commmissioners in many different countries across the world.
Anders Bratholm 7 January 1920 – 8 July 2010