New article by LawTransform’s affiliate Jackie Dugard South Africa is an interesting case study on the right to water. It is an upper-middle income country with a history and current reality of extreme racialised inequality, including the water services sphere. It is water scarce, and during 2018, Cape Town was expected to be the first […]
New article by PhD Candidate Hege Stein Helland: By utilising theories of deliberation and rational argumentation, this article critically analyses the Norwegian Supreme Court’s best interest decisions in four judgments on adoption from care. How does the Supreme Court reason their decisions and are the decisions rational? The findings show that the decisions are […]
BLOG: When asked by researchers, most children in long-term foster care or adoptive families want more rather than less contact with some birth family members and former foster carers. How can we prevent these children from having ‘searching’ anxieties and help them maintain a sense of ‘connectedness’? June Thoburn is an […]
BLOG: Parents often deny that their children are subject to physical and psychological violence – even when confronted with facts and evidence. What do care order cases tell us about these situations and how do decision-makers assess these serious, disturbing, and difficult cases? Blogpost by Professor Marit Skivenes, Director of Centre for Research on Discretion […]
BLOG: What are the implications of social media abuse and harassment for child protection workers? Blogpost by Kenneth Burns, collaborative partner at DIPA and senior lecturer at University College Cork. Child protection and social media There are a myriad positive uses of social media and online platforms to enhance our personal and community relationships, to foster […]
Satang Nabaneh (2021)
Abortion and 'conscientious objection' in South Africa. In Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa. By Ebenezer Durojaye, Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi, Charles Ngwena. Routlege
New book chapter: The 1996 Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act of South Africa is hailed as one of the most exemplary liberal laws on abortion. However, one of the key challenges to the efficacy of the law is the refusal to perform or provide abortion care based on conscience grounds. The Act does not directly […]
Elaine Sutherland (2021)
BLOG: When the Scottish Government attempted to take proactive child protection to a new level, it faced considerable – and, ultimately, effective – opposition. Blogpost by Elaine E. Sutherland, Professor II at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, Professor Emerita at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and Distinguished Professor Emerita at Lewis & […]
BLOG: Lack of data on children is an issue of major concern and weakens the protection of children’s rights worldwide. Blogpost by Jenny Krutzinna, Senior Researcher at the DIPA-centre (jenny.krutzinna@uib.no). For years, UNICEF has been calling on world leaders to invest in better data on children, warning in particular about missing data concerning half of the child-related Sustainable […]
Angela M. Páez and Catalina Vallejo Piedrahíta (2021)
2021. "Channeling Water Conflicts through the Legislative Branch in Colombia" Water 13, no. 9: 1214. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13091214
New article: This paper answers the question: has the Colombian Congress been effective at addressing relevant water conflicts and making them visible? While courts and social movements have been key for the advancement of social rights in Latin America, the role of legislators remains unclear. We conduct content analysis of all water-related bills, proposed bills, […]
BLOG: It is time for schools and social care facilities to elicit the voices of all children systematically and continuously. Blogpost by Rami Benbenishty, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (ramibenben@gmail.com). The Corona crisis demonstrated how children were not part of the public health decision making and discourse. In a time […]
Water Rights in a Time of Fragility: An Exploration of Contestation and Discourse around Cape Town’s “Day Zero” Water Crisis
