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Developments in descent law: where is it going and where is it supposed to go?
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29 November 2022
Report of the webinar 'Developments in descent law' organised with the support of UCERF (Utrecht University) and Anton de Kom University of Surinam

Strengthening the child’s right to participate in family law
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29 November 2022
Report of the online panel 'Strengthening the child’s right to participate in family law' on 27 October 2022, organised by Charlotte Mol of UCERF (Utrecht University)

Call for Papers: Equality Law in Context: Illuminating Intersections in Search for Global Justice
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28 September 2022
The 10th annual conference of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law will be held at Utrecht University. We welcome paper proposals.

Webinar: ‘Who is afraid of gender (diversity)?’
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7 June 2022
On 12 April, the webinar "Who is afraid of gender (diversity)?" took place, organised by UCERF's Lorena de Sosa

New publication: An inclusive approach to gender-based violence
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24 April 2022
UCERF researcher Lorena Sosa co-authored a publication on the CoE Convention on preventing and combating violence against women (Istanbul Convention)

Presentation of the Katharina Boele-Woelki prize to Utrecht University student
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23 April 2022
Florianne Peters van Neijenhof, law student at Utrecht University, won the award for the best comparative law paper on 14 March

The European Commission takes steps to combat gender-based violence
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22 April 2022
On 8 March, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a directive to combat violence against women, based partly on UCERF research by Lorena Sosa

Modern parenthood and parentage law: how to create a better match?
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6 March 2022
A heteronormative marriage model still lies at the basis of parentage law. Laureen Hu's research focuses on rethinking this from a legal and ethical study.

Meet... Charlotte Mol, researcher of children's rights: "Empowerment and protection, that's what it's all about"
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16 February 2022
The empowerment and protection of children. That's what Charlotte Mol is promoting with her research. She received het doctorate degree in Family Law cum laude.

Developments around bill to amend 'Trans' law in the Netherlands
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14 February 2022
The bill to amend the 'Trans' law was discussed in the Parliamentary Committee; the Minister responded to it in a memorandum dated 19 November 2021
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