Volume 4 No 2

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Contents

Editorial

Special focus: Selected developments in the area of children deprived of liberty

Editorial of special focus: Selected developments in the area of children deprived of liberty
by Manu Krishan, Reina-Marie Loader and Imke Steimann

Two sides of the same coin: Contradictory legal and administrative practices towards children in immigration detention centres in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
by Sophea Try, Shraddha Pokharel and Saittawut Yutthaworakool

Armed conflict and national security depriving children of liberty in the MENA region: Case studies and good practices
by Ahmed Samy Lotf, Charlotte van der Werf, Chiraz Arbi and Reham Jambi

Migrant children and adolescents from North Central America towards Mexico and their deprivation of liberty
by Valentina Agredo, Florencia Botazzi, Natalia Morales and María José Orué

Deinstitutionalisation of children with disabilities: Process, progress and challenges in South-East Europe
by Nikolina Milić, Gresa Rasiti, Esma Latić, Melina Kalem and Muamer Fazlić

Migration related detention of children in Southern Africa: Developments in Angola, Malawi and South Africa
by Girma Gadisa, Opal Sibanda, Kelvin Vries, and Carolyne Rono

Children’s deprivation of liberty as a tool of immigration and national security control in Europe? Unlocking captured childhoods by means of child-centred strategies and non-custodial solutions
by Chiara Altafin, Hugo Balnaves, Noémie Ninnin, Majsa Storbeck and Vassia Voziki

Overview of measures applied to children in conflict with law in post-Soviet countries: non-custodial measures and diversion programmes
by Mariam Muradyan, Aibek Askarbekov, Anna Arushanyan, Maria Koltsova and Salome Abuladze

Article

The 17 October 2019 protests in Lebanon: Perceptions of Lebanese and non-Lebanese residents of Tripoli and surroundings
by Elias Dahrouge, Jihad Nammour, Ahmed Samy Lotf, and 2019-2021 ArMA Programme students (Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon)

Recent regional developments

Recent regional developments in human rights and democratisation in South-East Europe during 2019
by Marija Ivanović, Meris Mušanović, Mariola Ceku, Aida Salihović-Gušić and Marjan Icoski

Human rights and democratisation during 2019: The case of Armenia, Georgia and Moldova
by Marina Rakopyan

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    Recent regional developments in human rights and democratisation in South-East Europe during 2019
    (Global Campus of Human Rights, 2020) Icoski, Marjan ; Salihović-Gušić, Aida ; Ceku, Mariola ; Mušanović, Meris ; Ivanović, Marija
    The region of South-East Europe (SEE) continues to be marked by competitive authoritarian regimes. This article employs a dynamic understanding of competitive authoritarianism that places the emphasis on a movement of a regime towards or away from either ends of the imagined consolidated democracy-authoritarian regime spectrum. More precisely, the article highlights strategies used by the parties in power to increase the control in society and thus consolidate political power, while also paying attention to contestations that arise against these negative trends in four countries of the region: Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia. The general findings reveal that the region is experiencing a continued trend of democratic backsliding in 2019. Two main structural reasons behind this seem to be (i) weak democratic institutions; and (ii) autocratic-minded political leaders, who tend to increase their power. As the contributions demonstrated, in 2019 ruling parties (or coalitions) in the region tended to increase control over media, continued to show disregard for the human rights of minorities and vulnerable groups, while also taking advantage of the ill-functioning judiciary unable to prosecute high-level cases of corruption. These negative trends resulted in a rather bleak democratisation impulse in the region, despite the larger scale citizen mobilisations against increased authoritarianism present in several countries. Key words: competitive authoritarianism; political control; protests; democracy; human rights