Children Born of War and their mothers

CBOW project managing director and chairwoman Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard invited by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to speak about Children Born of War and their mothers on the occasion of the International Women’s Day. For more information, please see here (link in German).

CBOW Project has endorsed the ‘Call to Action’ and ‘Platform for Action’ on Children Born of conflict related sexual violence November 1st 2022

The Children Born of War Project on November 1st 2022 endorsed the Call to Action and committed to all priorities in the Platform for Action which are: Priority One: Building Evidence and Understanding on Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence  Priority Two: Promoting Effective Laws, Policies & Practices Priority Three: Empowering Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Advocating With/on …

Launch of the Platform for Action on Children Born of conflict related sexual violence at the ‘Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) Conference’

November 28 to 29 2022, the UK government hosted the International Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) Conference in central London. In this context Lord Ahmad, Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and United Nations at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Preventing Sexual Violence in …

Call for Papers: From ”War Children” to ”IS Children”: Comparative Perspectives on European Children Born of War

International Workshop at Lund University, May 10th-12th, 2023. The study of Children Born of War (CBOW) has made significant advances in recent years within a wide range of national contexts and disciplines. Building on these foundations, this workshop seeks to strengthen the comparative scholarship in the field. CBOW may face multiple forms of legal, social, gendered, or ethno-national discrimination. Comparative …

Congratulations to our Grant Winners

The CBOW Project is happy to share the news of the selected winners from the first grant call published in April, 2022. The foundation received an overwhelming amount of applications demonstrating the importance and work being done with children born of war globally. After an extensive evaluation process (details outlined below), the foundation will support 6 projects for one year …

Interview: Norwegian news NRK

What do we know about “Children born of war” and what is needed to secure their basic human rights? Our chair of the board and managing director Ingvill C. Mochmann answered these and other questions in an interview (in Norwegian) with the Norwegian news NRK #Nyhetsmorgen For the full interview, see here (from Minute 18:30 onwards).