Hello! I am Elizabeth Donger, a writer and lawyer interested in children's rights, climate change, access to justice, migrant's rights and public health. Here you can find all of my publications on those and connected issues. Please reach out to collaborate or talk at  ehd239 [at] nyu.edu,  I'd love to hear from you. 

 

Journals & Book Chapters

  • J Cuartas et al, "Climate change is a threat multiplier for violence against children," Child Abuse & Neglect (2023) (link)
  • J Cuartas et al, "The climate crisis and violence against children," 7 Lancet Child Adolesc Health (2023), pp. 605-07 (link)
  • E Donger, "Children and Youth in Strategic Climate Litigation: Advancing Rights through Legal Argument and Legal Mobilization," 11 Transnational Environmental Law  2 (2022), pp. 263-289. (link).
  • A Bhatia, E Donger, J Bhabha, “‘Without an Aadhaar card nothing could be done’: a mixed methods study of biometric identification and birth registration for children in Varanasi, India,” 27 ​​Information Technology for Development 1 (2021), pp. 129-149. (link)
  • E Donger, “Colombian Distress Migrants in Ecuador: Limits to Higher Education,” in J Bhabha et al (eds.), A Better Future: the Role of Higher Education for Displaced People (Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 223-244. (link)
  • E Donger, “Fleeing the Weather: Migration and the Future of Climate Change in Latin America,” 17 Revista Magazine: Harvard Review of Latin America 3 (2018) (link).
  • E Donger & J Bhabha, “Dilemmas in Rescue and Reintegration: A Critical Assessment of India’s Policies for Children Trafficked for Labour Exploitation,” 10 Anti Trafficking Review (2018), pp. 52–69. (link)
  • E Donger “Framing Review: A map of existing protection frameworks, overarching issues, and areas for improvement publication,” in Children on the Move: An Urgent Human Rights and Child Protection Priority, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University (November 2016) (link).

Reports & Working Papers

  • E Donger & J Bhabha, A Mehrotra & M Chernoff. Before, Not After: An Evaluation of Aangan Trust’s Community-Based Approach to Preventing Child Harm. Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights (Jan 2019) (link)
  • E Donger & Arlan Fuller, Jacqueline Bhabha, Jennifer Leaning, Protecting Refugee Youth in Ecuador: an Analysis of Health and Wellbeing, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University (2017) (link).
  • E Donger & Arlan Fuller, Jennifer Leigh, Jennifer Leaning, Protecting Refugee Youth in Zambia: an Analysis of Health and Wellbeing, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, 2017 (link).
  • E Donger & Jacqueline Bhabha, Is This Protection? Analyzing India's Approach to the Rescue and Reintegration of Children Trafficked for Labor, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, March 2016 (link).
  • E Donger & Rachael Knight. “The Domestic Face of Land Appropriation: Global Trends in Dispossession.” Paper presented at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, March 14-18, 2016.
  • E Donger "The Sale of Children for Labor Exploitation: Summary of Existing Data and Areas of Priority and Good Practice," FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, March 2016 (link).

Blogs

  • E Donger, "Lessons on 'Adaptation Litigation' from the Global South What the Law Can, Can’t and Might Do to Help Us Cope with Climate Change," Verfassungsblog, March 25, 2022 (link). 
  • E Donger & César Rodríguez-Garavito "From Barbuda to the World: Love (and Peace and Happiness) in the Time of Climate Emergency" Open Global Rights, 11 December 2020 (link).
  • E Donger,“Aadhar and Child Protection in India: Access for the Poorest Remains Elusive,” Harvard FXB Blog, May 1, 2017 (link). 
  • E Donger, “India Anti-Trafficking Bill Changes Little for Child Laborers, but Activists Continue Fight from the Bottom Up,” Harvard FXB Blog, August 12, 2016 (link).
  • E Donger, “The importance of a victims-based approach to peacebuilding.” Insight on Conflict, February 28, 2013 (link).
  • E Donger, “Rula Quawas, Arab feminist and intellectual, discusses institutionalized sexism at the University of Jordan,” Broad Recognition, February 11, 2011 (link).