Listening to the Voices of Children
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 […]
Can More Be Done?
BLOG: Service provisions to vulnerable families with babies. Blogpost by Marit Skivenes, Research leader for the Child Right Unit at LawTransform, Director of Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, and a Professor in Political Science at the University of Bergen. Governments have a responsibility to provide necessary support for vulnerable families, and the Nordic welfare […]
Ana María Méndez, Ana Cristina González Vélez, Catalina Martínez and Mariana Ardila (2021)
“… The event of conception and even its eventual desire do not imply a project, let alone a desire for motherhood” (Pitch, 2003) The time for the feminist movement to fight for the complete decriminalization of abortion in Colombia has arrived. More than 90 organizations and 150 activists around the country have joined together towards […]
Power dynamics in the provision of legal abortion: a feminist perspective on nurses and conscientious objection in South Africa by Satang Nabaneh
Satang Nabaneh (2021)
Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
Though hailed as one of the most exemplary laws on abortion, the 1996 Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act of South Africa does not directly address conscientious objection. The consequences of such a gap serve as an obstacle to the efficacy of a liberal abortion law in practice. Where there are no clear laws or […]
Deportation of Children
Claire Breen, Professor of Law at the University of Waikato (New Zealand). (2021)
BLOG: When a state decides to deport a child, this decision needs to take the child’s rights and their best interests into account. Children and young people are at the centre of strained relationships between New Zealand and Australia at the moment. In February, Australia denied entry to a New Zealand born mother and her two children […]
Paola Bergallo, Marcelo Mangini, Mariela Magnelli & Sabina Bercovich (2021)
The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have not been gender-neutral. The crisis brought by COVID-19 has deepened pre-existing gender inequalities. This document analyzes the measures adopted by governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to mitigate the consequences of the pandemic, with the objective of determining the extent to which they recognize, make visible and/or […]
Anger and Anxiety About Child Protection
Tarja Pösö (2021)
BLOG: The role of emotions in child protection are understudied and underemphasized. Blogpost by Tarja Pösö, Professor of Social Work at Tampere University (Finland), Professor II at the DIPA-centre at UiB and member of the Child Right Unit at LawTransform. Finnish TV has recently broadcasted the Danish drama Ulven kommer (‘The Wolf is coming’ or ‘Cry Wolf’ in English) […]
Camila Gianella, Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos, Pamela Villacorta, Andrea Castro, Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar (2021)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2021:1) 4 p.
In this article, research leader of LawTransform’s Heath & Law Unit, Camila Gianella looks at how Peru has moved back at least five years on its road to reducing maternal mortality, due to the profound impact COVID-19 has had on the capacity of health services. Her research together with others shows that the health system […]
The Final Death Blow to the Turkish Constitutional Court
İlker Gökhan Şen (2021)
Şen, İlker Gökhan: The Final Death Blow to the Turkish Constitutional Court: The Appointment of the Former Chief Prosecutor, VerfBlog, 2021/1/28, https://verfassungsblog.de/death-blow-tcc/, DOI: 10.17176/20210128-222654-0.
BLOG by İlker Gökhan Şen: On 22 January 2021, Turkish President Erdoğan appointed Mr. İrfan Fidan to the Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC). Besides his alleged close ties to Erdoğan, Fidan was the prosecutor of many high-profile criminal cases that have been at the heart of the current backlash against democracy and human rights violations in […]
Saving democracy
Katrin Kriz (2021)
BLOG: What can child welfare research teach us about saving democracy? Blogpost by Katrin Kriz, Professor of Sociology at Emmanuel College (US) and member of the Child Right Unit at LawTransform. The violent attack on the United States Capitol on January 6 this year by extremist insurgents demonstrated how fragile democracy is. According to the dictionary […]