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U4 Issue | May 2019
Comparing peer-based anti-corruption missions in Kosovo and Guatemala
International missions brought foreign experts to help local partners tackle corruption and organised crime in Kosovo and Guatemala. With unprecedented investigative powers, those efforts sought to disrupt criminal networks and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2019:6)

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2018
The ruins of Bangladesh’s LGBT community
What was once a fledgling lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka is now destroyed. In 2014 and 2015 the Bangladeshi gay scene was...
East Asia Forum, Australia 23.03.2018

Journal Article | 2017
Political determinants of sustainable development goals
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...
in The Lancet vol. 390 no. 10112 pp. 2545-2546

CMI Working Paper | 2017
Adultery, rape, and escaping the house: The protection and policing of female sexuality in Afghanistan
This working paper undertakes an initial survey of the dynamics through which the criminalization of female sexuality structures women’s access to protection against rape in Afghanistan, examining both legislation and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:9) 16 p.

CMI Report | 2017
Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rights
This paper focuses on family law reform in Sudan-a country that has been in a state of perpetual conflict that stretches back long before its independence in 1956. The signing...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2017:5) 28 p.

CMI Brief | 2017
What causes Latin America’s high incidence of adolescent pregnancy?
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...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 9) 4 p.

U4 Practitioner Experience Note | 2017
Prosecuting corruption across borders: Eurojust – Interview with Maria Schnebli
For fifteen years, Eurojust’s operational focus has been set by the European Commission’s Agendas on Security and Migration: treating terrorism, illegal immigrant smuggling and cybercrime as priorities. Corruption cases, which...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Practitioner Experience Note 2017:3)

CMI Report | 2017
Legal Reform and Women’s Rights in Lebanese Personal Status Laws
This report documents and analyzes two recent major reforms in Lebanese law whose purpose is to further gender equality for women in Lebanon: (I) the alteration of the Sunni personal...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2017:3) 40 p.

CMI Brief | 2017
Paper tiger law forbidding FGM in Sudan
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still a common practice in Sudan. Nine out of ten women have been subjected to this practice.
In 2009, a proposed ban on FGM in the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 7) 4 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2017
The Criminalisation of Rape in Pakistan
In Pakistan, the legal recognition of rape as a crime has changed in pace with the dominant narrative on women’s sexuality. The country’s most troublesome categorisation of rape was, unfortunately,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:08) 24 p.

U4 Issue | 2017
Shadow Value Chains: Tracing the link between corruption, illicit activity and lootable natural resources from West Africa
Illicit natural resource trade continues to benefit corrupt officials, criminal and terrorist networks and to divert resources away from development, security and the common good in West Africa. How are...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2017:7) 80 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2017
Weak law forbidding female genital mutilation in Red Sea State, Sudan
This paper critically investigates the criminalization of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Red Sea, a state with one of the highest prevalence rates of FGM/C in Sudan (where 89% of...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2017:1) 16 p.

Journal Article | 2017
Legal knowledge as a tool for social change: La mesa por la vida y la salud de las mujeres as an expert on Colombian abortion law
In May 2006, Colombia’s Constitutional Court liberalized abortion, introducing three circumstances under which the procedure would not be considered a crime: (1) rape or incest; (2) a risk to the...
in Health and Human Rights Journal vol. 19 no. 1

Journal Article | 2017
Enemies of the state: Curbing women activists advocating rape reform in Sudan
Sudanese women activists launched a legal campaign in 2009 calling attention to how the country’s Sharia based Criminal Act of 1991 produced impunity for sexual assault in the Darfur conflict....
in Journal of International Women's studies vol. 18 no. 2

U4 Issue | 2016
Specialised anti-corruption courts: A comparative mapping
Frustration with the capacity of the ordinary machinery of justice to deal adequately with corruption has prompted many countries to develop specialised anti-corruption institutions. While anti-corruption agencies with investigative and/or...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2016:7) 28 p

U4 Issue | 2016
Corruption and state-backed debts in Mozambique: What can external actors do?
The average annual cost of corruption to Mozambique was recently estimated to be up to USD 4.9 billion for the period 2004-2014. Some analysts have entertained the idea that investments in...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2016:6) 24 p

CMI Brief | 2016
Violence against women in the context of urban poverty in Angola
Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women is playing out in the context of urban...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 16) 4 p.

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2016
Corruption and Wildlife Trafficking: The Elephant in the Room
Wildlife trafficking is high on conservation and political agendas. It is also increasingly high on the global crime agenda. Rightly so: corruption was identified recently by the UN Office on...
Inter Press Service News Agency 15 Sept 2016

CMI Report | 2016
Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015 (in Arabic)
This is an Arabic translation of the CMI report Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015, published in November 2015.
The English version can be found...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2015:10)

U4 Brief | 2016
Specialised anti-corruption courts: Slovakia
In 2003 Slovakia established a Special Court, subsequently renamed the Special Criminal Court (SCC), principally for corruption and organised crime cases. The SCC was a response to the domination of...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Brief 2016:2) 4 p