Webpages tagged with «Human Rights Education»

The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) is excited to join in the celebration of International Day of Education 2024. In Southeast Asia, strengthening Human Rights Education with partners has been fruitful.

How can human rights arguments be used in local, Indonesian courts? A five days human rights litigation training for Indonesian lawyers was recently organized in Jakarta, as part of NCHR’s international work on Rule of Law

The Indonesian National Police Commission recommends nationwide implementation of investigative interviewing and designated interview rooms

How can the UN, its member states and non-state actors meet current and future human rights challenges? This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To commemorate this, The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) is delighted to invite you to an event with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk.

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. 

A group of selected judges from across Indonesia attended human rights training at the NCHR at the end of February. Cold days in Oslo were filled with intensive lectures and discussions, to ensure a continued strengthening of human rights standards within Indonesia's judiciary.

The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) is now welcoming applications to the annual intensive course. Deadline 3 April 2023.

In the context of the NORHED II Project's Partnership for Peace, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights held a professional training/Ph.D. course the 17th - 19th of November, 2022. 

After two years of digital teaching, the NCHR invited scholars and practitioners from all over the world to join us in Oslo for the annual Intensive Course on Human Rights. A week of intensive learning, network building, and exchange of experiences engaged and inspired participants and organizers alike.

The NCHR and China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) recently organized an online training workshop on business and human rights, aimed at developing professional knowledge and skills and to inspire more Chinese university teachers to include business and human rights issues in their teaching activities.

The NCHR has since 2017 supported Norwegian experts to teach in the annual Human Rights Summer School at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL). This summer, NCHR director Professor Bård A. Andreassen and NCHR Professor Gentian Zyberi gave online lectures in the Summer School from 7-15 July.

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. 

The NCHR and partners recently organized a conference presenting two reports, focusing on the existing curricula on human rights at Bulgarian universities, and the introduction of human rights in mandatory legal curriculum in Bulgaria.

In the context of the NORHED II Project's Partnership for Peace, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights held the professional training course 'Human Rights Methodology and Approaches' for PhD students from 22 to 26 November 2021. 

On 8.-12. November, a training workshop on the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Mechanisms took place in Geneva, Switzerland. Over the week, five participants from Thailand deepened their knowledge of the UN Human Rights Mechanisms, focusing on the Universal Periodic Review. 

The Human Rights Education Book on Peace and Conflict Transformation in Southeast Asia was officially launched in a digital event with distinguished experts from ASEAN countries on October 28.

The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights welcomes you to a seminar on the prohibition against torture and the work of the Global Campus of Human Rights.

The NCHR and the Constitutional Research Institute at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) recently held a workshop on gender equality and human rights for Chinese university teachers in Chengdu, Western China.

We are now accepting application for the NCHR annual intensive course in human rights. Deadline May 18th.

The 4^th Regional Network Meeting on Human Rights Education was held virtually from November until December 2020, with a particular focus on access to remedies in the context of business, human rights and the environment.

The main objective of the training programme is to build capacity of law enforcement, and members of the judiciary in ASEM Partner countries on the evidence-based and human rights-compliant Investigative Interviewing technique and its associated safeguards.

NCHR contributes to capacity building workshop on gender and human rights for Chinese university teachers.