Events

Comment on Stian Øby Johansen's work by Professor Geir Ulfstein (PluriCourts, Law Faculty, UiO)  and Professor Niels Blokker (Leiden University)  

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This two-part online workshop considers how humanitarian technology-use can interact with refugee protection, specifically in the Middle East. The workshop specifically questions if and how digital legal aid practices could constructively contribute to refugee rights and rights of refugees.

Presentation by Johann Ruben Leiss, Associate Professor, Høgskolen i Innlandet, Lillehammer. Comment by Tobias Mahler , Professor, University of Oslo.

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The point of departure for the GOODPOL-project, is that disagreement over policy is the normal state of politics. How we approach such disputes and which policy decisions we make are decisive for the distribution of benefits and burdens in society.

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.

See the zoomed event below.

This event was part of Oslo Peace Days 2020 and focused on pertinent global challenges, including human rights accountability, countering climate change, managing migration, and dealing with organizational challenges of the United Nations (UN). 

The Norwegian Center for Human Rights (NCHR) and the Norwegian Human Rights Fund (NHRF) have the pleasure of inviting key institutions and individuals to strategize on how to advance the agenda on the Right to Defend Rights and support to human rights defenders in the frontline.

The title for Mr. Lynks presentation is: Responsibilities for addressing human rights violations in the OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territory): The Occupant (Israel), the Occupied (PA), the High Contracting Parties (to the Geneva Conventions), UN treaty bodies. It will be followed by a Q&A session and discussion. See the Zoom webinar here:

The Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights, Oxford Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights are hosting the closed event. Organizers: Professor Cathryn Costello and Dr. Angela Sherwood.

The Research Group on Migration Law at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights is organising a webinar series on migration under Covid-19. The first webinar will focus on international student mobility.

This side event during UNTOC-COP 10 will be on sharing good practices and advancing the development of international guidelines for interviews of suspects, victims and witnesses for the purposes of criminal investigations, including organized crime.

Research Group International Law and Governance in cooperation with Research Group Human Rights, Armed Conflicts, and the Law of Peace and Security 

Speaker: Camilla Guldahl Cooper, Associate Professor, PhD, Norwegian Defense University College 

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic NCHR's Intensive Course in Human Rights is conducted digitally in 2020. 

This second webinar in the two-part webinar series will discuss further building a new normal based on human rights standards and principles.

Human rights and democratic standards at risk in the Era of COVID-19. Lessons from Norwegian, European and Indonesian context.

How does law deal, or should deal with religion? The question arises especially in times of seemingly ever increasing nationalism and populism, often stirring up religious sentiments.

Associate Professor Stian Øby Johansen will present a case and focus on the international law aspects, as well as methodological lessons and challenges which arise when Norwegian law meets the international law

Avlyst for å forebygge koronasmitte.

This PhD/professional training course aims at a systematic criticism of blasphemy laws from the specific angle of Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB).

Avlyst for å forebygge koronasmitte.

Every year, millions of people are forced to leave their homes and become displaced. Climate change and natural hazard-related disasters are understood to play a crucial part in this events. This fresh research by Isabel Borges, explores the increasing concern over the extent to which those suffering from forced cross-border displacement as a result of environmental change, are protected under international human rights law.

Finalist of the Martin Ennals Award for human rights defenders, Norma Ledezma, will on this guest lecture speak about seeking justice for the families and victims of femicide, disappearance and human trafficking in Mexico.

Introduction by Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schrogl

Schrogl's presentation