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Are Decision-makers in Alignment with the Citizens?

NEW ARTICLE: Interesting differences between the professionals that make decisions about children and families and the population.
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Parents’ rights vs. Children’s rights

THESIS: Trond Helland has examined care order cases in the European Court of Human Rights in his master’s theses.
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Children’s right to non-discrimination

NEW BOOK: Skivenes and Søvig have edited a book on the implementation of children’s right to protection from discrimination.
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Involvement in care order proceedings

ARTICLE: Judicial decision makers express positive views about children’s and parents’ involvement, find Berrick, Dickens, Pösö, and Skivenes.
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 PhD candidate Hege Stein Helland and Professor Marit Skivenes in front of the Department building in Christies gate.
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Adoption as a Child Welfare Measure

NEW REPORT: Adoption provides better living conditions, but is seldom used in the Norwegian child welfare system.
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Are children in Norway sufficiently protected?

PUBLICATION: Skivenes and Falch-Eriksen identify possible blind spots in the Norwegian child protection system.
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Children’s rights in Norway

NEW BOOK: Marit Skivenes is co-editor of a book analyzing the status of children’s rights in Norway.
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Child perspective in focus

PUBLICATION: Marit Skivenes argues for children’s right to participate in her contribution to the book “Barnas barnevern”.
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Child’s Best Interest Principle

PUBLICATION: The implementation of children’s rights across states still has a long way to go, claims Marit Skivenes and Line […]
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Improving decision-making in court

NEW ARTICLE: The organization of care order proceedings might be an obstacle to good decision-making, finds Marit Skivenes and Milfrid […]
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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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Christies gate 17

5007 Bergen

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University of Bergen

Department of Government
C/O Marit Skivenes

P.O: 7802, 5020 Bergen
Norway

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Principal Investigator

Marit Skivenes

Phone:
+47 959 24 979
+47 55 58 25 87

E-mail:
Marit.Skivenes@uib.no