News
The China Programme at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and the Norwegian Ethical Trading Innitiative (IEH) welcomes you to a seminar on CSR in China with presenters and experts from both China and Norway.
The China Programme at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights welcomes you to a seminar by Mr. Dong Heping, Professor of Constitutional Law, Northwest University of Politics and Law.
The Vietnam Programme offers scholarships to individual Master students in Norway who are intending to complete a thesis. The purpose of the scholarship is to encourage students to conduct research on Vietnam and human rights related issues and contribute to this existing gap in international human rights research.
The NCHR China Programme has published its first newsletter for 2012. The newsletters are published 3-4 times per year, and describe recent China Programme activities, visitors and news. To add your name to the list of subscribers, please send us an e-mail with your name and affiliation.
The Young Scholars Research Programme (YSRP) at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) offers 4 researchers from Mainland China, Indonesia and Vietnam the unique opportunity of becoming a guest researcher at the NCHR for a period of two months, starting 1 September, 2012.
Research Fellow, Heidi Østbø Haugen, from the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, presented her research on Africans in China on 16 March 2012 at NCHR.
Breakfast seminar, Håndverkeren, Oslo, 8:30-10:30, 28 February 2012
The China Programme wish you a happy and prosperous new year of the Dragon!
The Norwegian mission to the EU in Brussels recently interviewed staff at NORDEM and one of the Norwegian election observers who has participated in the EU's election observation missions.
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and the MFA recently signed a new agreement that aims at strengthening NORDEM. The agreement covers the period 2012-2014 and ensures 24 million NOK to the operation of NORDEM. The number of staff will be increased from five to seven and the competence within democratisation and institution building will be enhanced.
Read more about the agreement on the web pages of the NCHR and the MFA.
The China Programme at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights welcomes you to a presentation by Dr. Kerry Brown, Head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House, on the coming leadership change in China and human rights developments.
The China Programme at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights welcomes you to a presentation by John Kamm of the Dui Hua Foundation.
The China Program has awarded two MA students, Kjesti Hetland and Aina Isdal Haugland with scholarships to carry out research on China and human rights related issues.
NORDEM has sent one long term observer to the EU's observation of the Constituent Assembly elections in Tunisia on 23 October. Two Norwegian short term observers will join the EU mission shortly before the election day.
NORDEM's one week Basic Course in Democratisation and Human Rights Monitoring was successfully concluded on 9 September. 21 participants completed the course.
22 participants from delegations from Iraq, Puntland, Somaliland and Turkmenistan visited Norway in relation to the local elections in September 2011.
Nicola Macbean, Director of the NGO "The Rights Practice", presented her work with the most disadvantaged in China at a seminar at the Norwegian Centre for human rights 10 August.
The China Programme at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights welcomes you to a presentation by Dr. Børge Bakken (Dept. of Sociology, University of Hong Kong) on surveillance and public security in China.
The NCHR China Programme has published its first newsletter for 2011. The newsletters are published 3-4 times per year, and describe recent China Programme activities, visitors and news. To add your name to the list of subscribers, please send us an e-mail with your name and affiliation.
To strengthen human rights education and research at law schools in the western provinces of China, the NCHR China Programme, in cooperation with Chinese partners, have arranged annual two-week training courses on international human rights law for Chinese university teachers. Talented participants get the chance to visit Hong Kong to deepen their research on human rights.
To contribute to more well-informed media reporting on issues related to human rights, discrimination and equal employment opportunities in China, the NCHR China Programme sponsored four trainings for journalists in 2009-2010. As a follow-up, four talented media workers were invited to visit Norway in May 2011.
Applicants are sought for the position of Head of the Office in Yerevan. The OSCE Office in Yerevan comprises of 47 budgeted positions (Unified Budget 2011) and the Head of Mission, as Fund Manager of the OSCE, is responsible for the planning, implementation and reporting activities of the respective Fund budget and the management of the corresponding human, financial and material resources. The Head of Mission is required to possess extensive managerial experience.
Applicants are sought for the post of Deputy Chief, CLJAS (P-5) with the Criminal Law and Judicial Advisory Service in the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions in the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations. Duty station will be New York. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, 22 July 2011.