It’s their life
Marit Skivenes (2021)
BLOG: We must listen to children’s views on contact in child protection care orders. 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. The European Court of Human Rights has criticized […]
Katre Luhamaa, Amy McEwan-Strand, Ruiken Barbara, Marit Skivenes, Florian Wingens (2021)
Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 120
NEW ARTICLE: Study of services and support for mothers and newborn babies in vulnerable situations in eight European jurisdictions. European countries have a legal obligation to provide services to vulnerable families, and children should not be removed from their parents’ care unless no other viable measures are available. In an article published in Children and […]
Barbieri, Catarina, Camila Gianella, Maria Defago, and Marta Machado (eds) (2021)
Rev. direito GV vol.17 no.3 São Paulo 2021 Epub Dec 15, 2021
In 2021, the LawTransform projects Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America, Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global Battles and Political Determinants of Sexual and Reproductive Health jointly published a special issue in Revista Direito GV. This special issue brings together novel scholarship produced since 2013 by a project of similar name based at the Centre on […]
Ana Côrtes (2021)
Our Global fellow Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado, the coordinator for the “Effects of Rights and Law” project at partner institution Getulio Vargas Foundation’s São Paulo School of Law, has recently organised and co-authored a book on Law and Legal Mobilisation. The book has seven chapters, one of which was written by our researcher Ana […]
Burns, Helland, Križ, Sánchez-Cabezudo, Skivenes & Strömpl (2020)
Corporal punishment and reporting to child protection authorities: An empirical study of population attitudes in five European countries. Children and Youth Services Review ILLUSTRATION: Colourbox
NEW ARTICLE: Study of population attitudes towards corporal punishment in five European countries. A global consensus that violence against children challenges children’s fundamental human rights appears to be expanding, with more and more countries reforming their laws to ban physical punishment of children in all settings. The use of corporal punishment (CP) to discipline children […]
What does COVID-19 tell us about the Peruvian health system?
Camila Gianella, Jasmine Gideon, Maria Jose Romero (2020)
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to health systems and inequalities globally. Countries that were previously considered to have “successfully developed” have not been able to adequately contain the spread of the virus or address the wider societal fall-out from the virus, suggesting broader underlying structural problems. The pandemic has hit Latin America hard, […]
Hege Stein Helland (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105693
NEW ARTICLE: Decision-makers exercise of discretion in decisions on adoption from care. Termination of parental rights and adoption from care are intrusive child protection interventions. Such decisions have far-reaching implications and are by many considered controversial. All European countries have legal mechanisms that allow for adoption without parental consent, but there is scarce knowledge on […]
What about intercultural health? Lessons from the pandemic that we should not forget
Pesantes, M. A. and Gianella, C. (2020)
Mundo Amazónico, 11(2), 93-110
Those who work in indigenous health know that it is very common for Indigenous People or peasants to be represented as guilty for their health problems. Such representations choose to ignore that the poor health indicators in places with the highest percentage of indigenous population are, to a large extent, a consequence of a negligent […]
Blog: Protecting the Child
BLOG: Protecting the Child – How are Children’s Rights Legitimized? Blogpost by LawTransform Affiliate Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Associate Professor II at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism and Senior Researcher at NOVA, OsloMet. The public discourse pertaining to child protection has settled in on an international level across Europe. The discourse is channelled through […]
Peru and COVID-19: Quick Response Hampered by Structural Failures
Eduardo Dargent and Camila Gianella (2020)
Bill of Health blog, Harvard Law School
On March 15, with 28 confirmed cases and no deaths, the government issued the Supreme Decree N° 044-2020-PCM declaring a state of emergency for 15 days. Measures in the decree included closing the borders, ordering a general lockdown, forbidding domestic travel, and closing schools, universities, churches, and all non-essential businesses, among others. Essential services like water, […]