A, Camila Gianella, César Ugarte-Gil, Godofredo Caro, et. al (2016)
Health and Human Rights Journal vol. 18. No. 1.
This article analyzes the factors associated with vulnerability of the Ashaninka, the most populous indigenous Peruvian Amazonian people, to tuberculosis (TB). By applying a human rights-based analytical framework that assesses public policy against human rights standards and principles, and by offering a step-by-step framework for a full assessment of compliance, it provides evidence of the […]
Bruce Wilson, Camila Gianella, Lara Côrtes (2016)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 9) 4 p.
This brief explores whether the 2010 UN Resolution that explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS) has been followed by changes in the national framework, and in the way countries are reporting on this right to the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Enforcement of water rights
Vikram Kollmanskog (2016)
Gaylaxy. Empowering Expressions (11.09.2016)
In India and worldwide many battles for and against LGBT/queer rights are fought out in the courts. This so-called lawfare is a strategy with potential advantages as well as risks. Overall, Indian LGBT/queer activists seem to have been successful. Since the late 1980s, Lawyers Collective had worked with HIV-affected people and NGOs such as Naz […]
Are Knudsen and Maja Janmyr (2016)
Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Volume 7, Number 3, Winter 2016
Affiliate at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation and Senior Researcher at CMI, Are Knudsen, is together with Maja Janmyr, Steering Committee Member at the Centre and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, the editor of a special issue on Humanitarianism in Refugee Camps in the journal Humanity: An International […]
Andrea Castagnola and César Augusto Valderrama (2015)
Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Derecho, Ediciones Uniandes; Mexico: FLACSO
Andrea Castagnola has together with César Augusto Valderrama published an article on internally displaced persons in Colombia in the newly published book Los Derechos Humanos y la Violencia: Estado, Instituciones y sociedad civil (Human Rights and Violence: The State, Institutions and Civil Society). Official records shows that until 2011 about 7.3% of the population in Colombia has […]
Camila Gianella Malca and Bruce Wilson (2015)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 1) 4 p.
In a surprising turn of events, a “rainbow revolution” has blossomed in Latin America. In spite of the region’s long history of deep-rooted patriarchy, machismo, homophobia, and political and social marginalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) people, Latin America is currently home to twenty five percent of the world’s countries with same sex […]
Marit Skivenes (UiB) and Anne-Mette Magnussen (HiB) (2015)
International Journal of Children's Rights
Marit Skivenes has together with Anne-Mette Magnussen published an article on “The Child’s Opinion and Position in Care Order Proceedings: An Analysis of Judicial Discretion in the County Boards’ Decision-Making” in the International Journal of Children’s Rights. This paper examines whether, and in what way, the child participates in care order decisions heard by the […]
Elin Skaar, Camila Gianella Malca, Trine Eide (2015)
London: Routledge (Transitional Justice Series)
This book examines the effects of transitional justice on the development of peace and democracy. Anticipated contributions of transitional justice mechanisms are commonly stated in universal terms, with little regard for historically specific contexts. Yet a truth commission, for example, will not have the same function in a society torn by long-term civil war or genocide […]
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 […]
Kalle Moene and Tina Søreide (2015)
Draft paper for Susan Rose-Ackerman and Paul Lagunes (Eds). 2015. Greed, Corruption, and the Modern State Essays in Political Economy, Edw. Elgar Publishing
Fashions come and go in the development community. When a policy idea becomes popular, some governments implement a cosmetic variant of the policy. What looks like development, are institutional façades; pretty from the outside, ugly from the inside. A good governance façade can be introduced deliberately to mislead observers and stakeholders to cover political theft. […]
