Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado and Débora Alves Maciel (2017)
The article is one of three recent publications from the project Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America. This article proposes a relational approach to the study of abortion law reform in Brazil. It focuses on the interaction of pro-choice and anti-abortion movements in different state arenas and political contexts. It details the emergence of a […]
Camila Gianella Malca, Rachel Sieder, Angelica Peñas and Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado (2017)
A new brief from the project Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America has recently come out. Despite increased evidence of international lobbying groups working to restrict sexual and reproductive health and rights policies at international bodies such as the United Nations, little is known about transnational networks working at local level to restrict abortion rights, how […]
Tribal Representation & Local Land Governance in India
Kavita Navlani Søreide (2017)
CMI Working Paper n. 4, 2017
A case study from the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya In India, the Schedule Tribes have remained on the fringes of growth, but less so in the majority tribal areas of the North East. This has increased the interest in the Sixth Schedule, the special constitutional provision relating to these areas, recognising the tribal communities’ rights […]
Namita Wahi, Ankit Bhatia, Pallav Shukla, Dhruva Gandhi, Shubham Jain, and Upasana Chauhan (2017)
Centre for Policy Research
The CPR Land Rights Initiative Report is the first comprehensive country wide study of land acquisition disputes before the Supreme Court since India’s independence. The Report analyses these disputes along various metrics, such as public purpose, procedure for acquisition, compensation, pendency of claims, and tracks trends with respect to distribution of disputes across geography and time, and central and state […]
Legal limits to tribal governance: coal mining in Meghalaya, India
Hugo Stokke (2017)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 2) 4 p.
Land in Meghalaya, India, was traditionally agricultural land, owned by the community. With increasing privatization and rising commercial value of land for non-agricultural use, many owners have sold the land for mining operations. So-called rat-hole coal mining has resulted in environmental degradation as well as in the loss of lives of miners, most of whom […]
Samia al-Nagar and Liv Tønnessen (2017)
Balghis Badri and Aili Marie Tripp: Women's activism in Africa. Zed books
Liv Tønnessen, who is a Steering Committee Member at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation, is one of the contributors to this volume. Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilizing around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In countries such […]
Liv Tønnessen (2017)
Journal of International Women's studies vol. 18 no. 2
Sudanese women activists launched a legal campaign in 2009 calling attention to how the country’s Sharia based Criminal Act of 1991 produced impunity for sexual assault in the Darfur conflict. After years of mobilization, Sudan enacted a rape reform in 2015. While on the surface a success story, extensive interviews conducted in Khartoum suggest that […]
Langford, M., Rodríguez-Garavito, C. & Rossi, J. (2017)
Cambridge University Press
Malcolm Langford, Co-Director of Centre on Law and Social Transformation, has, together with César Rodríguez-Garavito and Julieta Rossi, edited the book “Social Rights Jugdments and the Politics of Compliance. Making it stick” (Cambridge University Press). Among the contributors are Global Fellows of LawTransform Bruce Wilson and Daniel M. Brinks. “The past few decades have witnessed an […]
Synnøve Jahnsen, May-Len Skilbrei (2017)
The British Journal of Criminology
May-Len Skilbrei and affiliate Synnøve Jahnsen have written the article “Leaving no stone unturned: The borders and orders of transnational prostitution” in British Journal of Criminology. Criminologists are increasingly turning their attention to the intersections between immigration and crime control. In this article, we describe and discuss four regulatory practices whereby Norwegian police combine criminal law and immigration […]
Kendra Dupuy and Aseem Prakash (2017)
Dupuy, K. & Prakash, A. (2017). "Do Donors Reduce Bilateral Aid to Countries With Restrictive NGO Laws? A Panel Study, 1993-2012". Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. doi.org/10.1177/0899764017737384
Foreign aid contributes to about 10% of gross domestic product of developing countries. To distribute aid in recipient countries, Western donors increasingly rely on non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Yet, since the mid-1990s, 39 developing countries have adopted laws restricting the inflow of foreign aid to NGOs operating in their jurisdictions. In response to these restrictions, have […]