Following an invitation from the Commissioner of Elections of Sri Lanka, the EU deployed an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to observe the parliamentary elections held on 17 August 2015. NORDEM sent one short term observer to the EOM.
The International Programmes at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights has launched its annual report for 2014.
You can download and read the report here.
Justice Through Equality: Building Religious Knowledge for Legal Reform in Muslim Family Laws is now available in urdu.
This report sums up lessons we have learned from the expert discussions and written contributions in the nine years the Oslo Coalition project has run, and places some of the key arguments into an editorial synthesis. It is intended for policy-makers, stakeholders and advocates of reform who are developing knowledge-based arguments for legal reform.
“NORDEM observers have taken part in election observer missions for more than 20 years. This event proved a productive meeting place between international experts on election observation and election assistance and our experienced observers to develop methodology on election related violence," says the director of NORDEM, Marianne Kvan, on concluding the NORDEM Election Forum 2015.
OSCE/ODIHR is observing the local elections in Albania to be held on 21 June 2015. NORDEM is sending one long-term observer and four short-term observers to this mission.
15 years after graduating from the NCHR’s master programme in human rights, Liang Xiaohui is one of the leading experts on corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues in China.
OSCE/ODIHR has deployed a Limited Election Observation Mission (LEOM) to observe the 14 June local elections in Moldova. NORDEM is sending one long-term observer to this mission.
OSCE/ODIHR has deployed a Limited Election Observation Mission (LEOM) to observe Turkey’s parliamentary elections scheduled for 7 June. NORDEM has sent two experienced long-term observers to this mission.
NORDEM has launched its annual report for 2014. You can download and read the report here.
The EU has deployed an Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to observe the Legislative (26 May) and Presidential (26 June) elections in Burundi. NORDEM sends one long-term observer and two short-term observers to this mission.
OSCE/ODIHR is observing the early presidential election in Kazakhstan to be held on 26 April. NORDEM has sent two long-term and seven short-term observers to this mission.
In March 2015, the Director of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Inga Bostad, visited Vietnam for the first time. The Director met with several of the Vietnam Programme key partners during the visit.
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) offers 4 researchers from China, Indonesia and Vietnam the unique opportunity of becoming a guest researcher at the NCHR for a period of two months, starting 28 September 2015.
Application deadline: 14 June 2015
From 1-5 March 2015, NORDEM, together with a delegation from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, conducted a field visit to Ukraine where NORDEM personnel have been on the ground since the establishment of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMMU) in March 2014.
OSCE/ODIHR is observing the presidential election in Uzbekistan, which will be held on 29 March. NORDEM has sent one long-term observer to this mission.
Chuyen Nguyen Duc and Nga Hong Nguyen graduated from the Master Programme in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights in 2013 and 2014, respectively. They both received a scholarship from the Vietnam Programme which is provided to promising Vietnamese students.
Chuyen and Nga have now returned to Vietnam, and share some reflections from their studies in Norway.
Challenges and developments in election observation in the OSCE region were among the key issues discussed when NORDEM met the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Michael Link, at NORDEM's premises at the Norwegian Centre for HumanRights on 9 February.
NORDEM secondee Mette Bakken has contributed to IDEA Policy Paper on Electoral Law Reform in Africa.
The Policy Paper provides a series of recommendations to Electoral Management Bodies about to engage in the process of electoral law reform. The Paper is available online.
On 27 January, a report about the human rights impact of palm oil plantations in the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan was launched in Jakarta by the Jakarta-based Institute for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
An collection of essays on Islam and Human Rights was published in December 2014, based on selected contributions to the conference 'Islam and Human Rights - theories and prcatices in contemporary Indonesia', which was held in Yogyakarta in 2012.
NORDEM Thematic Paper Series provides an outlet for NORDEM secondees to discuss current practices within areas of their expertise.
The first issue is written by NORDEM secondee Torbjørn Bjorvatn and revolves around field work experiences from working with the economic and environmental dimension in OSCE in Tajikistan.
NORDEM Thematic Paper Series is available for downloading
On 12-14 January 2015, a group of 20 Vietnamese NGOs organised a workshop in Hanoi on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration and implementation mechanisms. The workshop was supported by the Vietnam Programme at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.
OSCE/ODIHR is observing the parliamentary election in Tajikistan to be held on March 1st, 2015. NORDEM has sent two long term observers to this mission and will in addition send four short term observers.
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) just released a new Handbook to provide better guidance for election observers in examining campaign finance as part of the overall assessment of elections.
The EU has deployed an Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to observe the General Elections in Nigeria. One of NORDEM's experienced election observer participates in this mission as a long term observer.