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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.
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.
Everything you need to know about the socio-political crisis in Peru in a nutshell! Come and join us!
Join us for a book debate on the legitimacy of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights!
PhD Candidate Bjørn Leif Brautheseth presents his project "The Political-Legal concept of Ecological Civilization in Chinese International Investments and their impact on African Conservation: A view from China, Kenya and Zimbabwe".
NCHR students are working on an advocacy project in collaboration with Scholars at Risk. They welcome you to learn more about Belarusian student and human rights activist Marfa Rabkova.
The NORHED II Project 70921: Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies (NORAD) and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights invite applications for a PhD-level course to take place in person in Oslo, on 23- 25 October 2023. Expenses for the selected participants from the partner institutions will be covered under the Norhed II project.
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 guest seminar by Professor Visar Morina on the implications of the Agreement on the path to normalisation between Kosovo and Serbia.
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights welcomes you to this guest lecture by Prof. Stoyanova on 'Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: Within and Beyond Boundaries'.
Two of NCHR’s doctoral researchers, Elsabe Boshoff and Dinie Arief, presented their doctoral projects in this year’s Human Rights Interdisciplinary PhD Triangle Gathering. It was hosted virtually by the University of Essex on 26-27 April.
The Nordic Journal of Human Rights winter issue for 2016 features four research articles covering a wide range of human rights topics: international election observation, women’s rights, substantive equality and judicial responses to ethno-cultural claims, as well as an ethnographic study of Mayan concepts and human rights framework. In this issue, all our contributing authors analyse and promote the development of more sophisticated rights frameworks and jurisprudence.
Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2021) Volume 39, Issue 3
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.
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.
Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2022) Volume 40, Issue 4
This issue features a timely article on the need for a closer relationship between fiscal transparency and human rights, and an article which offers a critical analysis of how the UN Human Rights Council conceives of traditional cultural practices. The latest issue also highlights the transition to an inclusive education system for disabled children, and features a reflection piece on human rights and dignity in health care. Articles are available from Taylor & Francis for download.
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) works with the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice to build the capacity of Bulgarian universities in human rights legal education.
Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2022) Volume 40, Issue 2
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.
