... for a radical shift in the way adult society relates to its young people, at every level. In 1981 the Norwegian government established the first children's rights commissioner, more often called a children's ombudsman in Norway. Tronde Waage is Norway's current ombudsman for children. The idea for setting up an independent commissioner's office for children started in the seventies because of the need to revise the Children's Act in Norway. Based on that society's changing, they wanted to have one independent office who could speak children's interest towards public administration regional and local governments, and the private sector. But it should be based on an act from parliament and have statutory power. One thing which is important to them is that every child in Norway should know about the ombudsman's work and what they can use the ombudsman for, that they are their spokesperson. So in every school, in the ...

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