Eight scholars from Southeast Asian countries recently participated in the 14th Conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS). They convened a dual panel titled "Safeguarding Scholarship: Autocratization, Institutional Autonomy, and Academic Freedom in Southeast Asia", as part of an NCHR-supported project.
From 19–21 August, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) hosted the Second Euro-Sino Forum on Human Rights Education. The event brought together an expert group from China and several European academics, fostering new partnerships and exchanging experiences on curriculum development and teaching methods in human rights education and human rights programs in China and Norway.
With support from the NCHR, the ASEAN University Network-Human Rights Education (AUN-HRE) hosted by the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University successfully organized the 10th Annual Regional Lecturer Workshop on Teaching Peace and Human Rights in July 2026 in Bangkok. The topic was peace and transformative peacebuilding.
NCHR is pleased to announce that a major reference work on research methodology in human rights, "Research Methods in Human Rights — A Handbook", has been translated into Chinese and published by Wuhan University Press, China.
