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Publications
Blogpost: Gender Trouble: Glocalization of Sexuality Education
September 25, 2024
Check here Dr Satang Nabaneh‘s most recent publication, the blogpost Gender Trouble: Glocalization of Sexual Education at Human Rights in Context. Dr Satang Nabaneh is …
Blogpost: Governing assisted reproduction
September 24, 2024
Check here Ana de Mello Côrtes‘ most recent publication, the blogpost Governing assisted reproduction at Open Global Rights. Ana de Mello Côrtes is a Queer …
LGBT Rights Recognition in Brazil
March 9, 2024
How to comprehend LGBT rights recognition processes in Brazil broadly? With a little help from my friends! We, the authors of the recently published …
Book chapters in Research Handbook on International Abortion Law
April 11, 2023
LawTransform co-director Liv Tønnessen and other LawTransform affiliates and PhD course alums have contributed with chapters in the newly published Research Handbook on International Abortion …
Special Issue: The limits of the law: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa
May 30, 2022
The Political Determinants of sexual and reproductive health project published in December 2019 a special issue in the Journal of Health and Human Rights. The …
Projects
Mindful Justice: Aligning Police Practices and State Accountability
October 22, 2024
Collaborators: Center for Legal Resources (Romania), Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (Norway), LawTransform (Norway) The project aims to research and compare legal and forensic practices in …
Truth and Reconciliation in a Democratic Welfare State: The Indigenous Sami and the Kven/Norwegian Finns Minority in Norway (TRUCOM)
February 5, 2020
This project will study how Norway – a well-established democratic welfare state – attempts to settle the negative effects of long-lasting policies of assimilation and …
PluriLand: Theorizing Conflict and Contestation in Plural Land Rights Regimes
January 8, 2020
Advisory board: Daniel Brinks, Aninka Claassens, Duncan Kennedy and Alf Gunvald Nilsen. The PluriLand project aims to develop a theory of land rights claiming in …
LawTransform: Effects of Rights & Law
August 27, 2018
The project aims to consolidate the Centre on Law & Social Transformation (LawTransform) as a leading hub for scholarship on the use of law as …
Political determinants of sexual and reproductive health: Criminalisation, health impacts and game changers
November 7, 2017
Why is homosexuality (encompassing lesbian, gay, bi, trans*/LGBT) more politicized and criminalized in Africa than elsewhere? Can similar politicization of abortion be prevented? And …
News
Video – Annual Lecture on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
March 4, 2020
To celebrate the Sami National Day, the third Annual Lecture on Rights of Indigenous Peoples was arranged on the 6th of February. This year’s Annual Lecturer …
Video: Constitutional reform process in Gambia
November 27, 2019
Satang Nabaneh is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and LawTransform PhD scholar as part of the research project …
Events
Gendered Autocratization. PhD Conference 21-22 March with open and streamed keynotes and roundtables.
February 8, 2024
Are you a PhD student and interested in the politics of gender and sexual and reproductive rights? This 2-day Conference-format PhD course is for you. …
Can art change the world? Revisit the Annual Lecture on Indigenous Rights
January 31, 2024
Can art change the world? Ande Somby gave this year’s Annual Lecture on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights For the 7th time, LawTransform, in collaboration with Bergen …