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Blogpost: Being serious about children’s rights

BLOG: Child protection legislation must change its basic principle to accommodate a child focus on the rights of individuals.
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Blogpost: Consensual Removals in Child Protection Cases

Why does Norway have significantly more involuntary removals than Sweden and Finland?
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Blogpost: Contact in Child Protection Care Orders

BLOG: Mind the gap!
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Blogpost: What to learn from Strasburg?

BLOG: The European Court of Human Rights has set the Norwegian child protection system under pressure.
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Blogpost: Limit the discretionary space

BLOG: Lawmakers should look at how the legislation can support and guide decision makers in child welfare cases.
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Blogpost: A Question About Legitimacy

BLOG: Citizens’ groups are challenging children´s rights and the child protection system.
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Reflections from Melilla

BLOG: PhD student Barbara Ruiken spent 9 days in Melilla to learn about Unaccompanied Migrant Minors.
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Blogpost: Norwegian child protection

BLOG: How does the Norwegian state uphold its obligation to protect children from harm and abuse?
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Blogpost: Child´s best interest and adoption policy changes

BLOG: A reminder to policy makers and agents in the field of child protection.
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Blogpost: Are Rights Right for Children?

BLOG: There are challenges surrounding rights for children.
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About us

Research Centre at the University of Bergen. We study government’s use of power towards its citizens, and justifications thereof. Focus on children's rights and child protection.

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University of Bergen

Department of Government
C/O Marit Skivenes

P.O: 7802, 5020 Bergen
Norway

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Marit Skivenes

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+47 959 24 979
+47 55 58 25 87

E-mail:
Marit.Skivenes@uib.no