Events - Page 6
On the occasion of the Oslo Peace Days, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) and the Norwegian Human Rights Fund (NHRF) is hosting a panel discussion on the topic of Norwegian and international support to human rights defenders, specifically addressing the question: "Current challenges for human rights defenders: What kind of support can Norway provide?
This seminar, which is a part of Oslo Peace Days, will look at the importance of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. It will address the requirements for effective implementation, and what needs to be prioritized in the future.
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 Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and the Rafto Foundation welcomes you to a lecture with Patrick Ball, looking at the role of data and statistics in truth commissions and tribunals. Ball is the Director of Research at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, who won the Rafto Human Rights Prize 2021.
The GOODPOL Hybrid seminar Distinctively Political Normativity: Problems and Possibilities is held by Eva Erman, Professor in political science at Stockholm University.
In this digital webinar hosted by GOODPOL, Simone Chambers will discuss the new-authoritarians' attack on the public sphere.
In this digital webinar organized by GOODPOL, Samantha Besson discusses what the good government standard could and should mean in international law today.
In this digital webinar organized by GOODPOL, Keith Dowding discusses moral expertise and the role of the moral expert.
Seminar with Klentiana Mahmutaj, independent expert on the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development at the United Nations Human Rights Council. Klentiana Mahmutaj will share her experiences and provide insights into the work of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Public lectures and discussion. The seminar is arranged on the occasion of the visit of an Indonesian interfaith delegation to Norway, in cooperation between the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and the Council of Religious and Life-Stance Communities.
What are the current trends when it comes to assisting and protecting refugees and asylum-seekers in Europe and in the Middle East? How do political decisions regarding refugees taken in one region affect assistance and protection in other regions?
The NCHR's yearly Intensive Course in International Human Rights will be arranged in September 2019.
Nils Butenschøn retires from his position as Professor at the NCHR on first of July this year. The seminar is organised around central topics in Butenschøn’s academic works over the past 45 years: Nationality conflicts, models of power sharing in deeply divided societies, and the study of citizenship and human rights as a basis for legitimate state authority. Empirically, most of the works, including the five books Butenschøn has published in the last decade, have focused on the Middle East and the region’s modern political history.
This Conference aims at gathering leading scholars and young researchers to discuss an important topic for international law and governance, which has gained increased attention in the last decades.
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Enver Hasani, Professor of International Law, First President of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo and Prof. Dr. Haxhi Gashi, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Prishtina.
In March 2019 was the first election in Thailand since the military coup in 2014: What is the situation for those organizing to defend the human rights? Will the human rights crisis prevail, or will the situation get better?