The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights

 

• NCHR is internationally recognised as a leading research institution in the field of human rights with research staff including lawyers, political scientists, social anthropologists, social geography and philosophy.
• The research programme has four main themes: (1) human rights and power, (2) human rights and development, (3) human rights and diversity, and, (4) human rights and conflicts.
• The NCHR is responsible for editing the Nordic Journal of Human Rights/Nordisk Tidsskrift for Menneskerettigheter and heading the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI).
• NCHR’s two-year Master programme in ‘The Theory and Practice of Human Rights’ is well-established and the second class graduated in the spring of 2008 while the number of students admitted from 2008 has nearly doubled. NCHR is also involved in the teaching of human rights and international humanitarian law for law students and other students at the University of Oslo.
• NCHR’s activities as the Norwegian human rights commission is based on the United Nations Paris Principles. NCHR takes part in an international network under the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Yearbook for Human Rights in Norway, published annually by NCHR, is a flagship publication for NCHR and provides an independent review of pressing human rights issues in Norway.
• NCHR’s  international programmes are funded through agreements with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD). Main countries are currently China, Indonesia and Vietnam.