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Visiting Scholar Program

NEWS: The Centre will continue the visiting scholar program in 2020-21. The program is now also open for  Norwegian researchers.
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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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The Child’s Perspective in Court

PUBLIC EVENT: We can do better in protecting the rights of the child in court, experts claim.
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Competence in Child Protection Cases

NEW ARTICLE: Comparison of the judicial child protection procedures in Germany with other European countries.
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Norwegian Child Protection and its Critics

NEW REPORT: Comparison of the Norwegian child protection system and the systems of five East European countries.
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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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Key Role in National Strategy Process

Four researchers from the Centre involved in the Norwegian Government’s new strategy on children and youths at risk.
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Child Welfare Removal of Infants

NEW ARTICLE: Need for a re-examination of the rights of infants and their specific needs in the Nordic welfare states.
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Legitimacy Challenges

NEW PROJECTS: The Centre has received funding to conduct a groundbreaking study of legitimacy challenges for democratic governments and the […]
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Unique in a World Context

NEW PUBLICATION: Changes in the Norwegian Child Welfare Act formalize children’s right to “love”.
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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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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