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Karina Ansolabehere

Fellow

Researcher of the Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

One step forward and many to the side: combating gender violence in Afghanistan, 2001-2014

Torunn Wimpelmann (2015)

Women's Studies International Forum

This article by Torunn Wimpelmann (CMI)  offers some reflections on the efforts over the last decade to combat violence against women in Afghanistan through reforms of laws and the justice system. The paper identifies two intersecting factors that have curtailed the transformative impact of these efforts. Firstly, law-making and legal practices have become infused with […]

Argentinean Politics: House of Cards?

Welcome to Bergen Resource Centre for International Development and the event: Argentinean Politics: House of Cards? On January 18, Argentinean prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his home. This happened the exact day before he was to testify in Congress after he had accused Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of conspiring with Iran to subvert […]

The European Backlash: Conservative Movements, Abortion and LGBT Rights

Neil Datta in conversation with Vegard Furustøl Vibe How to understand the recent phenomenon in Europe of push-back on social advances in sexual and reproductive rights?  Who are the actors, what motivates them and how do they work? Are there links between the debates on conscientious objection (reservasjonsrett) that we have seen in Norway in […]

Lise Rakner

Acting Director

Professor of Political Science, Department of Goverment, University of Bergen

Jackie Dugard

Fellow

Associate professor in the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Namita Wahi

Global Fellow

Fellow at Centre for Policy Research