Deportation of Children
Claire Breen, Professor of Law at the University of Waikato (New Zealand). (2021)
BLOG: When a state decides to deport a child, this decision needs to take the child’s rights and their best interests into account. Children and young people are at the centre of strained relationships between New Zealand and Australia at the moment. In February, Australia denied entry to a New Zealand born mother and her two children […]
Paola Bergallo, Marcelo Mangini, Mariela Magnelli & Sabina Bercovich (2021)
The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have not been gender-neutral. The crisis brought by COVID-19 has deepened pre-existing gender inequalities. This document analyzes the measures adopted by governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to mitigate the consequences of the pandemic, with the objective of determining the extent to which they recognize, make visible and/or […]
Anger and Anxiety About Child Protection
Tarja Pösö (2021)
BLOG: The role of emotions in child protection are understudied and underemphasized. Blogpost by Tarja Pösö, Professor of Social Work at Tampere University (Finland), Professor II at the DIPA-centre at UiB and member of the Child Right Unit at LawTransform. Finnish TV has recently broadcasted the Danish drama Ulven kommer (‘The Wolf is coming’ or ‘Cry Wolf’ in English) […]
Camila Gianella, Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos, Pamela Villacorta, Andrea Castro, Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar (2021)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2021:1) 4 p.
In this article, research leader of LawTransform’s Heath & Law Unit, Camila Gianella looks at how Peru has moved back at least five years on its road to reducing maternal mortality, due to the profound impact COVID-19 has had on the capacity of health services. Her research together with others shows that the health system […]
The Final Death Blow to the Turkish Constitutional Court
İlker Gökhan Şen (2021)
Şen, İlker Gökhan: The Final Death Blow to the Turkish Constitutional Court: The Appointment of the Former Chief Prosecutor, VerfBlog, 2021/1/28, https://verfassungsblog.de/death-blow-tcc/, DOI: 10.17176/20210128-222654-0.
BLOG by İlker Gökhan Şen: On 22 January 2021, Turkish President Erdoğan appointed Mr. İrfan Fidan to the Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC). Besides his alleged close ties to Erdoğan, Fidan was the prosecutor of many high-profile criminal cases that have been at the heart of the current backlash against democracy and human rights violations in […]
Saving democracy
Katrin Kriz (2021)
BLOG: What can child welfare research teach us about saving democracy? Blogpost by Katrin Kriz, Professor of Sociology at Emmanuel College (US) and member of the Child Right Unit at LawTransform. The violent attack on the United States Capitol on January 6 this year by extremist insurgents demonstrated how fragile democracy is. According to the dictionary […]
It’s their life
Marit Skivenes (2021)
BLOG: We must listen to children’s views on contact in child protection care orders. Blogpost by Marit Skivenes, Research leader for the Child Right Unit at LawTransform, Director of Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, and a Professor in Political Science at the University of Bergen. The European Court of Human Rights has criticized […]
Katre Luhamaa, Amy McEwan-Strand, Ruiken Barbara, Marit Skivenes, Florian Wingens (2021)
Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 120
NEW ARTICLE: Study of services and support for mothers and newborn babies in vulnerable situations in eight European jurisdictions. European countries have a legal obligation to provide services to vulnerable families, and children should not be removed from their parents’ care unless no other viable measures are available. In an article published in Children and […]
Barbieri, Catarina, Camila Gianella, Maria Defago, and Marta Machado (eds) (2021)
Rev. direito GV vol.17 no.3 São Paulo 2021 Epub Dec 15, 2021
In 2021, the LawTransform projects Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America, Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global Battles and Political Determinants of Sexual and Reproductive Health jointly published a special issue in Revista Direito GV. This special issue brings together novel scholarship produced since 2013 by a project of similar name based at the Centre on […]
Ana Côrtes (2021)
Our Global fellow Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado, the coordinator for the “Effects of Rights and Law” project at partner institution Getulio Vargas Foundation’s São Paulo School of Law, has recently organised and co-authored a book on Law and Legal Mobilisation. The book has seven chapters, one of which was written by our researcher Ana […]