Webpages tagged with «NCHR»
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and the Rafto Foundation welcomes you to a lecture with Patrick Ball, looking at the role of data and statistics in truth commissions and tribunals. Ball is the Director of Research at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, who won the Rafto Human Rights Prize 2021.
What is the future of human rights? Join us for a seminar and panel discussion to celebrate the anniversaries of the Norwegian Centre of Human Rights (35 years) and the Nordic Journal of Human Rights (40 years)!
Welcome to this guest lecture by Akinaga Yoshida on how the Human Rights Committee can address human rights issues and ensure the effective implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Japan.
What are the intersections of human rights and sustainability, and how do the two agendas meet? This three-day conference aims to develop critical and reflective thinking on sustainability and its linkages to human rights.
Please join us for a discussion on the impact of UN human rights treaties and mechanisms at the domestic level, organized jointly by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (University of Oslo) and the Centre for Human Rights (University of Pretoria) as part of a project funded by Diku’s UTFORSK programme.
What is the status of implementation of investigative interviewing internationally, and how can effectiveness be researched and assessed? Join us for a lecture with Ray Bull and Dave Walsh.
To commemorate the Oslo Peace Days, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights is hosting a roundtable event to discuss the movement against modern slavery.
PhD Candidate Elsabe Boshoff at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights is presenting her PhD project "A right to sustainable development: Recognition, nature and prospects of an emerging human right – global and African perspectives".
Welcome to this hybrid launch of Professor Tania Murray Li and Professor Pujo Semedi's new book "Plantation Life". The book examines the structure and governance of Indonesia's palm oil plantations.
This weekend Dr. River Hustad from the NCHR International Department contributed to an international webinar about human rights protection of vulnerable groups during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Over 300 people joined as the book, Dalam Perangkap Sistem Monokultur Industri Perkebunan Sawit by Sri Palupi, Prasetyohadi, Yulia Sri Sukapti og Aksel Tømte, was launched on 31 March (available in Indonesian).
On November 20, 2021, the seminar "Business and Human Rights in the Chinese National Human Rights Action Plan" was held in Guangzhou. The seminar was co-organized by the Research Institute for Human Rights at Guangzhou University and Wuhan University in China.
The 4th Regional Network Meeting on Human Rights Education was held virtually from November until December 2020, with a particular focus on access to remedies in the context of business, human rights and the environment.
On 8.-12. November, a training workshop on the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Mechanisms took place in Geneva, Switzerland. Over the week, five participants from Thailand deepened their knowledge of the UN Human Rights Mechanisms, focusing on the Universal Periodic Review.
What is the possibility of establishing a National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) in Vietnam? Recent NCHR guest researcher Dr. Nguyen Linh Giang led interesting discussions on the subject.
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) and our partner, the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (GA), will hold the eighth Training Workshop on UN Human Rights Mechanisms on 3.-7.- October 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland. This workshop is for participants from the MENA countries only and will include regional perspectives.
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) and our partner, the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (GA), will hold the ninth Training Workshop on UN Human Rights Mechanisms on 27—31 March 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland. This workshop is for participants from the MENA countries only and will include regional perspectives.
The NCHR supported the 2nd annual China Forum on Business and Human Rights in November. This Forum contributes to the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) in China and provides a platform for communication and dialogue between the academic community and the industries that have corporate supply chain responsibility.
On June 15 2022, the Director of the NCHR Professor Bård A. Andreassen spoke about the Norwegian Corporate Transparency Act during an International seminar about Supply Chain Due Diligence Legislations: Trends and Challenges.
NCHR and partners held a side-event on efficiency and fairness in criminal investigations under the 31st session for the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
As part of the Oslo Peace Days 2022, the NCHR gathered some of the world's foremost experts on labor rights in Domus Bibliotheca, for a discussion on the ever relevant issue of forced labour and modern slavery in global supply chains.
12 academics from China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam gathered in Geneva, Switzerland for the annual training on UN human rights mechanisms. The workshop, jointly organized by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and Geneva Academy, aims to strengthen civil society by equipping academics with in depth knowledge of how to utilize the UN human rights mechanisms in their home countries.
Developed in partnership with the UNODC, NCHR announces availability of the new Global eLearning course on investigative interviewing.
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) is now welcoming applications to the annual intensive course. Deadline 3 April 2023.
Climate change, pollution and loss of biodiversity are serious threats to humanity. This conference focuses on how these issues affect the realization of human rights.
Time and location: 26 - 27 October 2023 at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Law.