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2023-04-28: Kristian Gustavsson from the Faculty of Law and Davor Vuleta from the Sociology Law Department talked about their research. Davor talked about recent figures regarding children in the Swedish Enforcement Authority's (Kronofogden) register, such as how many children are in the register and how it has looked historically, how many children live in over-indebted families, how many children are affected by evictions, etc. Kristian focussed on children's rights in debt collection and took his starting point in his dissertation.

2023-03-02: Johanna von Bahr, an investigator for children's rights in practice at the Swedish Arts Council and member of the Swedish Institute for Children's Rights, talks about the Swedish Arts Council's work on children's rights to art and culture.

2022-05-18: Anna Litsmark, PhD student in environmental psychology at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University of Technology, presents her research on the role of outdoor lighting for children's independent mobility in urban environments and qualities in the illuminated environment that are important from a child's perspective.

2022-03-28: Amira Sofie Sandin, Senior Lecturer in Library and Information Science at the University of Borås, lectures on including young people as active participants in research.

2021-12-18: Child Rights Institute and Lund University invite CRC Change Agents to participate in a remote conference to discuss the impact of the pandemic in countries and schools worldwide.

2020-12-08: Seminar open for the Child Rights Institute network, 13:15-15:00 (Zoom). Contact anna [dot] sonander [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Sonander) or lina [dot] ponnert [at] soch [dot] lu [dot] se (Lina Ponnert )for more information.

2020-10-19: The Child Rights Institute organises a seminar as part of the "Child protection week" with Region Skåne och SUS Child Protection Team.

2020-09-11: Research seminar open to the Child Rights Insitute network members.

2019-11-20: The Child Rights Insitute publishes a Swedish anthology about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. An article in Swedish about the book is available on the Faculty of Social Science's website.

2018-11-06 Better knowledge of child rights when 14 countries contribute to a digital platform

2017-06-01: Change agents on children’s rights told their stories