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Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2021) Volume 39, Issue 4
Special Issue: Disentangling the Relationship between Religion and Law
Special Procedures are a central source of transparency about countries’ human rights practices and of information to the UN Human Rights Council. But how do these procedures gain access to countries, and do they retain independence in the process? Welcome to this seminar with Professor Andrea Liese on the access and independence of the UN Special Procedures.
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.
The NCHR International Department is visiting Copenhagen University this week, attending the international conference “Categories, Digital Reconfiguration and Mobility in China”.
How can the UN, its member states and non-state actors meet current and future human rights challenges? This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To commemorate this, The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) is delighted to invite you to an event with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk.
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) and the Human Rights Fund (NHRF) are organizing the exhibition "CHANGING THE NARRATIVE". It focuses on human rights defenders and their role as actors of change. The exhibition will be displayed on the 3rd floor of Domus Juridica, November 1-12, and is open for all.
Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2021) Volume 39, Issue 2
Special Issue: New Frontiers In Children’s Rights – Between Protection And Empowerment
Professor Gentian Zyberi of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights has been appointed as a member of the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) for a non-renewable 5 year mandate, for the period June 2023 – June 2028.
Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2023) Volume 41, Issue 2
Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2023) Volume 41, Issue 1. Special issue "World Heritage and Human Rights"
Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2023) Volume 41, Issue 2
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.
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.
In this seminar, organized by GOODPOL, Jonathan Kuyper questions the effectiveness of communication and deliberation for solving asymmetric commons dilemmas.
In this seminar, Johan Karlsson Schaffer will discuss indigenous legal mobilization in Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
In the wake of the 7 October events, where Hamas launched an attack on Israel, and Israel responded with massive bombardment and a ground invasion campaign on the Gaza strip, the discussions on the application of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights to the situation of Palestine have intensified. Terrible atrocities have been unfolding against civilians. What are the legal implications of the recent events?
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.
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.
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.
Welcome to this guest lecture by Prof. Andrea Sangiovanni on the nature of human rights. This lecture is the first lecture in the NCHR guest lecture series 'Current Issues in Human Rights Research'.
The 40th edition of the Jean-Pictet Competition took place between 24 February and 4 March 2023, in Durrës, Albania. The team from the University of Oslo reached the semi-finals for the second time.
The following reflections are written by NCHR Master student Miyo Tanaka, in connection with her internship at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. NCHR Master students are encouraged to complete an internship as part of their studies.
International institutions increasingly promote ‘ethical recruitment’ as a standard for health worker migration from poor to rich countries. How is this notion interpreted and practiced, and with what consequences? The Research Group on Global Challenges to Human Rights is pleased to invite you to this seminar with Dr Tine Hanrieder on the limits of the regime for ethical health worker migration.