Webpages tagged with «Human Rights and Sustainable Development»

Portraits of the speakers
Published Oct. 13, 2023 1:29 PM

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.

Dry ground with a tiny green plant
Published Sep. 18, 2023 3:40 PM

Join us for the opening session of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) 2023 Conference, where international and national key experts and stakeholders will share perspectives on how climate change, pollution, and loss of biodiversity affect the realization of human rights. 

Faculty of Law
Published Sep. 7, 2023 5:55 PM

Climate change, pollution and loss of biodiversity are serious threats to humanity. This conference focuses on how these issues affect the realization of human rights. 

Time and location: 26 - 27 October 2023 at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Law.

Published Jan. 25, 2022 9:37 AM
17 colorful icons representing the individual sustainable development goals.
Published Oct. 8, 2021 10:57 AM

The Raoul Wallenberg Institute, the Norwegian Center for Human Rights, Åland Islands Peace Institute, and Galaxy Fund recently carried out a project on "SDG and human rights localization". It examines how local authorities and civil society organizations can cooperate in human rights localization processes, where local and subnational contexts are included and considered when implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Image may contain: Waste, Pollution, Shack, Adaptation, Neighbourhood.
Published Nov. 24, 2020 12:34 PM

The event is part of Oslo Peace Days 2020, in which this webinar will focus on the enduring challenges of global poverty and its relationship to human rights, including the collective experience of former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, Philip Alston, politicians, activists and academics.

Published Nov. 18, 2020 3:39 PM
Published Oct. 27, 2017 12:00 PM

The Atlas-Alliance, the Norwegian Center for Human Rights (NCHR) and Plan International Norway observe the UN’s international day of persons with disabilities by organizing a one-day seminar on inclusive development 6. December. 

Published Jan. 19, 2017 9:51 AM