Child Rights
People
Publications
Those that challenges state authority
February 9, 2022
BLOG: Those that challenges state authority – The critics of the welfare state and the child protection system are diverse with a range of motives …
“Under His Eye”: Poland inches closer to Gilead as it targets children and families
January 14, 2022
Blogpost by Neil Datta Secretary of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights Gilead, Margaret Atwood’s authoritarian dystopia in The Handmaid’s Tale where …
Who pays for foster care? In the U.S., parents do
December 2, 2021
BLOG: U.S federal law make the parents pay for foster care. The intention is to make foster care shorter – but do the law work …
Justifying care order decisions in cases of violence
November 23, 2021
New article by Audun Løvlie and Marit Skivenes About one third of all referrals to the Norwegian Child Protection System concerns observed violence or …
In the Best Interest of the Child? Justifying Decisions on Adoption from Care in the Norwegian Supreme Court
November 15, 2021
New article by PhD Candidate Hege Stein Helland: By utilising theories of deliberation and rational argumentation, this article critically analyses the Norwegian Supreme Court’s …
Projects
Cosmopolitan Turn and Democratic Sentiments
January 10, 2020
The CONSENT-project will study the children’s rights situation in Norway and Romania. All children possess rights as declared in the United Nations Convention on the …
Legitimacy Challenges
January 8, 2020
The premise for the LEGITIMACY project is that the mobilization against the Norwegian child protection system is but one piece in a larger picture about …
Discretion and the Child’s Best Interest in Child Protection
November 3, 2017
The research project “Discretion and the child’s best interests in child protection” aims to unlock the black box of discretionary decision-making in child protection cases …
The Acceptability of Child Protection Interventions: A Cross-Country Analysis
November 3, 2017
This project examines the population´s values and interpretations of the child´s best interest’s principle within different societies, as well at the courts justifications of their …
Child Protection and Human Rights – Making professional judgements
March 7, 2017
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a legal document with global reach and thus has a cosmopolitan imprint. The CRC …
News
Funding for new project: PARTICIPATION: Are Children Heard in the Child Protection System?
December 21, 2020
NEW PROJECT: Marit Skivenes, LawTransform’s Child Rights’s unit research leader, has received funding to conduct a groundbreaking study of children’s participation. – Lack of participation …
Barnevernsfrokost – ny webinarserie
November 2, 2020
I den nye webinarserien Barnevernsfrokost, skal vi hver måned behandle et tema innenfor barnevern og barns rettigheter. Nå på tirsdag, 3. november kl. 9.00, avholdes …
Events
Barnevernfrokost: “Det handler om oss” – Barn om samvær i barnevernet
March 24, 2022
Dato, tid: 01 april 2022, kl. 09.00–09.45 Sted: Zoom Hva tenker barn selv om samvær med sin biologiske familie? Hvor mye får barn være med å …
RDV: Souverainism, Populism, and the Transformation of the European Court of Human Rights
March 15, 2022
Date/Time: 24. march 14:15-15:30 Venue: Zoom Mikael Rask Madsen is the Head of the Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts, University of Copenhagen) and Professor …