Slik vil dommen forandre barnevernet
Norge ble dømt i menneskerettighetsdomstolen i en sak om tvangsadopsjon. Det vil få konsekvenser for barnevernet. Den europeiske menneskerettighetsdomstolen slo nylig fast at Norge har krenket retten til respekt for privatliv og familieliv i en sak om tvangsadopsjon av et barnevernsbarn. Dommen i den såkalte Lobben-saken var den første i en rekke norske barnevernssaker som er tatt […]
Bergen Summer Research School
Deadline for applications is February 1, 2020. Apply here: https://www.uib.no/en/rs/bsrs/94359/application Study period: June 8-18, 2020 More information at: University of Bergen Check out LawTransform’s own course, Global climate governance regime: here. Bergen Research Summer School (BSRS) seeks to address some of the most pressing global challenges of our time. Bergen is an international trading port situated […]
Video: Accountability in Global Health and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Alicia Ely Yamin is a senior scholar at the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University. In collaboration with the United Nations Secretary-General’s Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent (IAP) she explains in this video what accountability means and how it applies in global health and development and in […]
By Carlos J. Zelada and Carolina Neyra-Sevilla This is a summary of the article, which was published in The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Volume 3 (2019) and is part of the LawTransform project Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global Battles. Full article available here. The Peruvian legal system does not have […]
May 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the Council of Europe. It was founded in 1949 as a response to the fundamental violations of human rights in World War II. The Statute was signed by ten founders and now includes 47 Member States which have come together to agree on common standards on human rights, […]
Sexual and Reproductive Rights in India
On the 14th – 15th of April LawTransform co-organized the conference ‘’Sexual & Reproductive Rights in India: Social movements & legal battles‘‘ at the Bangalore International Centre in India. Through this conference prominent sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) activists, academics and lawyers were brought together to evaluate the past, present and future of SRR work […]
LawTransform PhD course 2019
LawTransform PhD course 2019 Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change (14- 23 August) Practical information The course combines lectures specifically designed for the course and participation in the lectures, panels, round-tables, and workshops of the Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation. Here are the programs for the PhD-course/Bergen Exchanges and […]
In the course of three months in 1994, between 800 000 and 1 million Rwandans were brutally slaughtered in systemised attacks. The reconciliation process that followed has been hailed all over the world. But for many Rwandans the hundred days of horror linger. More than a lesson in reconciliation and how to move on, the […]
This is a short summary of the article “Overcoming the limits of Legal Opportunity Strctures – LGBT rights’ Divergent Paths in Costa Rica and Colombia, written by Bruce M. Wilson and Camila Gianella-Malca (published in the journal “Latin American Politics and Society”). The article is part of the LawTransform project Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: […]
The metropolitan area of São Paulo is home to approximately 21 million people or about four times the population of Norway. Among the largest cities in the Americas, Sao Paulo alone is home to approximately 12 million people. In a city which, according to Forbes Magazine, has among the largest concentrations of billionaires in the […]