Launch of new unit on Child Rights and book launch
Thursday 1 December marked an important occasion for the Centre on Law and Social Transformation as it launched, not only its new unit on Child Rights, but also the new and highly relevant book «Child Welfare Removals by the State – A Cross-Country Analysis of Decision-Making Systems» edited by Kenneth Burns, Tarja Pösö and Marit Skivenes. Only […]
Maja Janmyr (2016)
Refugee Survey Quarterly (2016) 35 (4): 58-78.
Lebanon has had an ambiguous approach to the more than one million Syrians seeking protection in the country since 2011. The country is neither party to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, nor does it have any national legislation dealing with refugees. In October 2014, Lebanon’s Council of Ministers adopted the first […]
Andrea Süssmann
Alumni
PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen
Christine M. Jacobsen
Fellow in Bergen
Director, Centre for Womens and Gender Research, University of Bergen
Elin Monstad
Alumni
PhD scholar
Clara Burbano-Herrera
Global Fellow
Congratulations to Andrea Castagnola, Anibal Perez Linan and “Desarrollo, Instituto de Capacitacion y Estudios” for the awarded a two-years research fund to study judicial voting in the Supreme Court of Paraguay. Forthcoming publication: Pérez-Liñán, A. and Castagnola, A. 2020. “¿Activismo inocuo? La Justicia Constitucional en la era democrática” in Tres décadas de democratización en Paraguay: […]
Navi Pillay at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation
Navanethem “Navi” Pillay – former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, judge of the International Criminal Court and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda – held an exclusive meeting with students at the University of Bergen on Tuesday 22 November 2016. She visited Bergen in relation to the Rafto Conference 2016, and suggested to […]
Launch of new unit on Gender, Sexuality & the Law
The new unit on Gender, Sexuality & the Law at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation was launched on Monday 21 November in Bergen, with an event on International diplomacy and African LGBTI Rights. Why has Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, and Intersex (LGBTI) rights become central to the West’s human rights agenda in Africa? Does international […]
Vikram Kollmanskog (2016)
Gaylaxy. Empowering Expressions (11.09.2016)
In India and worldwide many battles for and against LGBT/queer rights are fought out in the courts. This so-called lawfare is a strategy with potential advantages as well as risks. Overall, Indian LGBT/queer activists seem to have been successful. Since the late 1980s, Lawyers Collective had worked with HIV-affected people and NGOs such as Naz […]