Time: 10:10-11:30 What are effective institutional solutions to the problem of gender based violence? Common strategies have been to use the law to criminalize gender violence, increase penalties, put more people in jail. Is this effective? Is the criminal law the best tool? In Latin America #NiUnaMenos – the ‘not one less’ movement – challenges […]
Time: 14:30-15:30 This session presents findings from a pilot study of the debates on homosexuality in African newspapers as part of the LawTransform project on Political Determinants of Sexual and Reproductive Health in Africa (GLOBVAC). The data gathering process has been based on the technique of web scraping media articles, and will illustrate how large-scale […]
International Drivers of Anti- Sexual & Reproductive Rights Lawfare
Abortion rights are contested in all regions of the world, and activists on all sides use legal strategies and arenas to advance their goals. We know that strategies are developed, spread and enabled though dense international networks, but in particular with regard to the “anti’s“ these networks remain opaque. Participants include: Julieta Lemaitre (Los Andes […]
Abortion Rights Lawfare: Comparative Perspectives
Abortion rights are contested in all regions of the world, and activists on all sides use courts – domestic as well as international – as well as the legislative arena and the streets to fight their cause. This session brings together experts on struggles over abortion rights from the Americas, Africa, Europa and India, to […]
Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America: Methods and Findings
This roundtable presents findings from a 3 year LawTransform research project analyzing the strategic use of rights and law in the contentious battles over abortion rights in Latin America. Access to legal abortion is severely restricted in most of the region, but the role of socio-legal mobilization and the courts has been key in improving […]
Key Note Address by Rashida Manjoo: When gender harms – what can law do about it?
9:00 – 9:30 Formal opening of the 2017 Bergen Exchanges
9:30 – 10:00 Key Note Address: Rashida Manjoo Former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women/University of Cape Town
10:10 – 11:30 Roundtable What are effective institutional solutions to the problem of gender based violence?
The politics of researching sexual and gender minorities
LawTransform and the research group on Right, Democracy and Welfare welcome you to a joint seminar on the politics of researching sexual and gender minorities with Pierre Brouard, Deputy Director, The Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender, at the University of Pretoria. Adopting a critical sexualities lens, Brouard will discuss his latest research, on the […]
Tuesday, 2nd of May, 08:30-10:00 In early April, popular Ugandan academic Dr. Stella Nyanzi was arrested and charged by the Ugandan state. Stella is also a colleague and Research Affiliate of the Centre on Law & Social Transformation. Her formal charge of was of ‘computer misuse’ and ‘cyber harassment’ because she among other things has […]