Blogpost by: Professor Jill Marshall, Professor of Law, Royal Holloway, University of London BLOG: We may all think we know what ‘personal identity’ means, but what exactly is a human right to personal identity? Does everyone have the same identity rights? This piece outlines how the right has developed at the European Court of Human Rights […]

  Blogpost by: Petra Järvinen, Doctoral Researcher, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, and visiting scholar at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) in April and May 2024. Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s Governments Programme took a much-awaited initiative to advance the role of adoption from care in Finland. However, the placement of this initiative […]

BLOG: Forces in the U.S. are calling for the abolition of the child protection system. Could Europe be next? Blog post by Jill Duerr Berrick, Professor of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley, and Professor II at the Department of Government, University of Bergen The national mood in the U.S. is sour.  Deep political divisions have riven the […]

BLOG: Finland is becoming increasingly diverse. But is the Finnish social field equipped to meet children of diverse backgrounds?     Blogpost by: Laura Holmi, M. Soc. Science, Senior Lecturer, Licensed Social Worker, Head of the Degree Programme in Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, School of Wellbeing in Helsinki, Finland and Sylvia Hakari, MA Ed., […]

One of the most interesting – albeit challenging – parts of researching child marriage in Brazil is recognizing the need for a more nuanced, dynamic, and critical understanding of children’s agency. Unfortunately, we are still quite distant from it by PhD candidate Larissa Cristina Margarido, FGV Sao Paulo Law School How are sexual and family practices […]

BLOG: There has been a shift in many post-Soviet countries’ efforts to improve the protection of children’s rights in child protection, resulting in fewer children in residential care. However, there are still challenges for ensuring the sustainable implementation of children’s rights. Blog post by Postdoc Victoria Shmidt, UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ Child protection in the fifteen […]

BLOG: Fulfilling children´s right to participate and be involved in complex settings such as hospital treatment, child protection, court proceedings, is difficult to realize. However, in the health sector the support of a psychosocial professional is a promising solution to securing children’s rights that may be considered within in other sectors. Blog post by Amarens […]

BLOG: Children and parents subjected to state interventions experience significant disruption in their lives. They may face many challenges, such as barriers to participation and a lack of comprehension of the reasons for the intervention. The written decisions of judges may serve participation by facilitating comprehension, and thus acceptance, of the reasons for such life-transforming decisions, […]