Child Rights
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Publications
Child Protection in post-Soviet countries: Child rights friendly?
August 7, 2023
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 …
How ‘child life specialists’ secure children’s rights to participation
June 5, 2023
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, …
Reunification philosophy, practice and research: We can do better for families
August 4, 2022
Blogpost by Jill Duerr Berrick, Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor at U.C. Berkeley, U.S., and Professor II at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, UiB, …
Family connections for children in long-term care, guardianship or open adoption
May 23, 2022
New blogpost by Professor Amy Conley Wright & Professor Judy Cashmore, Research Centre for Children and Families, The University of Sydney. In Australia there is …
Parental Freedom in the Context of Risk to the Child: Citizens’ Views of Child Protection and the State in the US and Norway
March 19, 2022
New article by Jill Duerr Berrick, Joseph N. Roscoe and Marit Skivenes Professor Marit Skivenes and colleagues at UC Berkeley, USA, examine the normative basis for limiting parents’ …
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
RDV: Brazil: Deciding in times of crisis
January 20, 2023
Time: 23. February, 14:15 Place: Jekteviksbakken 31 or Zoom. Karina Denari (FGV São Paulo Law School), Siri Gloppen (UiB) and Larissa Margarido (FGV São Paulo Law School). …
RDV: Protecting children from what? An overview of child protection in legal history
January 20, 2023
Time: 16. February 14:15 Place: Christies gate 17 or Zoom. We welcome you to our RDV seminar with an excellent speaker, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde. He …