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8. juni 2025 05:41
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BRING ZAMMI HOME
From Keira: My newborn daughter Zammi was taken from me shortly after her birth on November
7, 2024. This happened as a result of a parenting competency test I underwent in 2014 that did not
take into account my Greenlandic cultural background. The same psychologists used by Thisted
Municipality have assessed me as low-intelligent and without parenting skills, although a
Greenlandic interpreter was never called for any of the meetings, investigations or decisions. These
psychologists have also been in charge of all infant therapy and play appointments for my children,
which have been taken away from me. This has happened on the basis of Thisted Municipality's
discriminatory and condescending treatment of me in relation to my ethnicity, gender, race,
disability, age and sexual orientation in connection with the parenting competence examinations,
where several psychological tests that are not adapted to Greenlanders have been used against
me.
In their assessment of the recommendation for forced removal, Thisted Municipality stated:
"Keira draws on her Greenlandic background, where even small facial expressions have
communicative significance. But since the child will grow up in Denmark, it is estimated that Keira
will have difficulty preparing the child for the social expectations and codes that are necessary to
navigate in Danish society. This challenge is combined with Keira's cognitive difficulties, especially
in relation to linguistic and cognitive stimulation of the child, which can result in her expressing
herself simplistically and impulsively.”
I am now more aware that Thisted Municipality has violated my human rights as a member of an
indigenous people in Denmark. As an Inuit, I am protected under ILO Convention no. 169 from
1997, which Denmark has signed, as well as the UN declaration, Article 7, which prohibits member
states from committing genocide, including the forced removal of children from indigenous
peoples to other groups. Inuit Greenlanders are the only indigenous population group in Denmark,
which means that I should be protected by this legislation.
My daughter Zammi has been forcibly removed without sufficient information in accordance with
the official principle, as emphasis has been placed on old information from the disputed parental
competence examination, which is not adapted to either me or my daughter, and the basis of the
case is therefore not current.
A parental competency examination has been used, where no culturally adapted tests have been
carried out, which is contrary to Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights.