Authors: Camila Gianella, Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado and Siri Gloppen We read with interest the article by the GBD 2016 SDG Collaborators1 (Sept 16, p 1423), which presents a comprehensive analysis of the potential gaps and gains in the health-related Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Among the issues that caught our attention when reading the Article was the […]
Grant from Stiftelsen Fritt Ord for LawTransform MA student
Congratulations to Mathilde Thorsen, our intern on the Water-rights project and a master student at the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, who has been awarded a grant from Stiftelsen Fritt Ord for her MA thesis: ‘Water & Power’ – How civil society make use of the international human rights system regarding the right […]
The project explores how and whether civil society in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have shifted to a rights-approach. An approach that can facilitate the use of courts in working for the fulfilment of rights. Has the development of rights and judicial review been driven by European institutions and Norwegian judges, or does civil society have […]
Among others scholars, the Centre on Law and Social Transformation’s research leader for the Health & Law Unit, Camila Gianella, is sharing her research with readers of the Reprohealthlaw Blog on the topic: Brazil – Conservative mobilization and adolescent pregnancy in Latin America. To read more, please check out the blog post here.
Authors: Camila Gianella, Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado and Angélica Peñas Defago On September 27, 2017, the Brazilian Supreme Court – in a 6 to 5 judgment – decided that public schools can have “confessional” (Catholic) religious teaching in their curriculum. The constitutional case had been proposed by the Attorney General, who argued that current practice – that privileges Roman Catholic […]
Ana Cristina González Vélez
Global Fellow
PhD Candidate in bioethics, public health and applied ethics at Fiocruz Foundation, Brasil
Time: 2 December, at 6pm – 8pm Place: Rafto Foundation for Human Rights, Menneskerettighetenes plass 1, 5007 Bergen, Hordaland WELCOME TO PUBLIC PANEL DEBATE AT THE RAFTO HOUSE On December 2, 1984 an explosion occurred at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal in Central India, and thousands died within hours. Tens of thousands have been injured, maimed, […]
Authors Jill Duerr Berrick (School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, USA) Jonathan Dickens (Centre for Research on Children and Families, University of East Anglia, UK) Tarja Pösö (School of Social Sciences and Humanities¸ University of Tampere, Finland) Marit Skivenes (Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen) The article comperes blank […]
What causes Latin America’s high incidence of adolescent pregnancy?
Authors: Camila Gianella Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado Angélica Peñas Defago Latin America is the only region in the world where adolescent pregnancies are not decreasing. According to a recent article in the Lancet, if the current trend continues, Latin American countries will not fulfill the sustainable development goal on adolescent pregnancy by 2030. This underperformance has […]
Gender, intimacy and mobility in the context of hardening borders and new populist nationalisms. This workshop addresses the linked concepts of rights,control and regulation of reproduction, and the growing financialisation of care. We are on one hand witnessing the growth of populist and exclusionist movements which push European governments to harden and militarise borders. Simultaneously, Western […]