Child Rights
People
Publications
Building child rights-based anti-racist competencies in the Finnish social field
May 7, 2024
BLOG: Finland is becoming increasingly diverse. But is the Finnish social field equipped to meet children of diverse backgrounds? Blogpost by: Laura Holmi, …
Will the U.S. Abolition Narrative Make its Way to Europe?
January 10, 2024
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 …
Can accountability promote participation for children?
November 20, 2023
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 …
Do young wives have agency?
October 9, 2023
One of the most interesting – albeit challenging – parts of researching child marriage in Brazil is recognizing the need for a more nuanced, dynamic, …
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 …
Projects
Protecting child rights and public safety
October 18, 2024
Project Team: Linda Gröning, Marit Skivenes, Ingun Fornes, Siri Gloppen Timeframe: 2025 – 2030 The PROTECT project will study how to protect children’s rights while …
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 …
News
New Project on Children’s Rights and Crime Prevention
October 18, 2024
Linda Gröning from the Faculty of Law (PI) and Marit Skivenes (co-PI) from the Department of Government and Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) …
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 …
Events
Children and Rights to Identity at the European Court of Human Rights
October 3, 2024
In her presentation, Jill Marshall examines how human rights law, particularly the European Court of Human Rights, has developed the right to personal identity under …
Comparing Child Protection Laws: Insights from Constitutional Courts
February 26, 2024
As part of our RDV-webinar series with the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism , LawTransform hosted a lecture by Conor O’Mahony, Professor …