Call for Papers: Human Rights and Sustainability
The Research Group on Human Rights and Sustainable Development invites submission of papers for an upcoming conference on the intersection between human rights and sustainability as an evolving and justiciable concept.
The conference is scheduled for 9-10 June 2022 in Domus Media. It aims to develop critical and reflective thinking on sustainability and its linkages to human rights, relating to its evolution, implementation, justiciability, and the political power dynamics of different actors including in civic spaces.
Read the full call for papers here.
International Women's Day 2022
The theme for the International Women’s Day this year is “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”. In 2022 the NCHR is developing a pilot project on gender equality, human rights and climate change to raise awareness about these issues.
Prof. Gentian Zyberi nominated for 2nd term in UN Human Rights Committee
Professor Gentian Zyberi, a professor of international law and human rights at the NCHR, has been nominated for a second term at the UN Human Rights Committee, for the period 2023-2026. He was elected for the first term in 2018 and has been serving in the Committee since 2019.
Dr. Rachlew is the new Norwegian representative to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
NCHR guest researcher and Police Superintendent Dr. Asbjørn Rachlew becomes the first active police officer to serve as a representative to Europe's torture prevention committee.
Dr. Rachlew was appointed on 8. December 2021, taking over from Professor Georg Høyer who has served the committee for three periods of four years each.
Association of Human Rights Institutes: Statement on the Russian aggression against Ukraine
The Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI), of which the Norwegian Centre of Human Rights is a member, has issued a statement in solidarity with Ukraine.
AHRI, a global network of academic human rights institutes, expresses its solidarity with Ukraine and voices "grave concern over aggression by the Russian Federation against the sovereign state of Ukraine".
You can read the full statement and its calls for action here.
More news:
- Strengthening cooperation on police reform with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
- Nordic Journal of Human Rights, Issue number 3, 2021 is now available
- The UNGPs: 10 years on, 10 years forward