Abortion rights are contested in all regions of the world, and activists on all sides use legal strategies and arenas to advance their goals. We know that strategies are developed, spread and enabled though dense international networks, but in particular with regard to the “anti’s“ these networks remain opaque. Participants include: Julieta Lemaitre (Los Andes […]
Abortion rights are contested in all regions of the world, and activists on all sides use courts – domestic as well as international – as well as the legislative arena and the streets to fight their cause. This session brings together experts on struggles over abortion rights from the Americas, Africa, Europa and India, to […]
This roundtable presents findings from a 3 year LawTransform research project analyzing the strategic use of rights and law in the contentious battles over abortion rights in Latin America. Access to legal abortion is severely restricted in most of the region, but the role of socio-legal mobilization and the courts has been key in improving […]
Elin Skaar, Jemima García-Godos and Cath Collins (eds.) Transitional Justice in Latin America. The uneven road from impunity towards accountability. Routledge, Oxon & New York. (2016)
Skaar, E., García-Godos, J. and C. Collins. (2016). Transitional Justice in Latin America. The uneven road from impunity towards accountability. Routledge, London and New York.
This is the first book to comprehensively and systematically trace the trajectory from impunity towards accountability for past human rights violations in the Latin American region. Based on rich historical analysis, the international team of authors track, across time, the accountability achievements and challenges of nine countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay, […]
The seminar features editors and authors of three new books discussing the social dynamics of law in the Latin-American region and beyond:
· Handbook on Law and Society in Latin America, edited by Rachel Sieder, Karina Ansolabehere & Tatiana Alfonso (Routledge 2017, forthcoming)
· Demanding Justice and Security: Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America, edited by Rachel Sieder (Rutger 2017)
· Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance – Making It Stick edited by Malcolm Langford et al. (Cambridge University Press 2017)
9:00 – 9:30 Formal opening of the 2017 Bergen Exchanges
9:30 – 10:00 Key Note Address: Rashida Manjoo Former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women/University of Cape Town
10:10 – 11:30 Roundtable What are effective institutional solutions to the problem of gender based violence?
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In her lecture Prof. Sikkink makes the case that, yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy: Guantánamo is still open, the Arab Spring protests crushed, and governments are cracking down on NGOs everywhere. But Sikkink draws on decades of research and fieldwork to provide a rigorous rebuttal to […]
Emmanuelle Auriol, Erling Hjelmeng, and Tina Søreide This article addresses how the rules intended to protect consumers and taxpayers from economic crime, namely leniency and cartel settlements in competition law, criminal sanctions and debarment of suppliers from participation in public tenders for bribery, work together. While the economic reasoning behind these rules makes sense when […]
International Drivers of Anti- Sexual & Reproductive Rights Lawfare
