Intensive Course in Human Rights, September 2023

For over 15 years, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights has invited participants worldwide to attend the Intensive Course in Human Rights. During the first week of September this year, a group of attendees from various countries and professions filled the classroom with vivid and substantive discussions on human rights.

Group picture of articipants from the 2023 course holding their certificates up in the air

Participants from the 2023 course. Photo credit: Sunniva Eik Fredstad.

Participants with various backgrounds from Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Nepal, Norway, the Philippines, Peru, Syria, Vietnam, Uganda, and the United Kingdom traveled to Oslo for a week-long intensive learning and knowledge-sharing course at the NCHR premises at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo.

Program

The Intensive Course in Human Rights certainly lives up to its name. The course had a compact program consisting of lectures, group work, and institutional visits.

Course program 2023

The program included the history and politics of human rights, various international and national human rights mechanisms, civil and political rights, economic, social, and cultural rights, human rights and the environment, business and human rights, and the human rights protection of refugees, internally displaced and stateless people.

Four participants sitting together preparing for a group work exercise — Participants prepare for a group exercise on Individual Complaint Procedures under the United Nations Human Rights Treaties. Photo Credit: Katarina L. Friis-Olsen

Contributors

We want to thank everyone who contributed to making this week unforgettable. Thanks to all the lecturers and professors who shared their expertise in the field, the Norwegian Parliamentary Ombud on Torture Prevention, who welcomed us on a visit, and Henrik Syse, who gave a fascinating talk about the Nobel Peace Prize and his time in the committee at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. And last but not least, to all participants for sharing their experiences and knowledge, which significantly contributed to this course's success.

Participants in discussion with Professor of Law, Hadi Lile, at Østfold University College. Photo Credit: Katarina L. Friis-Olsen

Tags: Human Rights Education, SMR, NCHR International Department By Katarina Lavrinenko Friis-Olsen

Published Sep. 12, 2023 9:26 AM - Last modified Sep. 13, 2023 5:31 PM