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The Vietnam Programme offers scholarships to individual Master students in Norway who are intending to complete a thesis.

Over the last two weeks the Vietnam Programme in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Security in Vietnam, the Norwegian Police University College, and Oslo Police District has conducted training courses in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.

The Vietnam Programme and Juss-Buss are aiding several universities in Vietnam  in their development of free legal aid offered by law students.

Tre NORDEMere forteller om sine erfaringer i Juristkontakt 2-2014

For tredje år på rad har Vietnam Programmet ved SMR i samarbeid Ministry of Public Security i Vietnam  med seg eksperter fra Polithøgskolen og Oslo Politidistrikt til  Vietnam for å holde kurs om ”Investigative Interviewing and the Presumption of Innocence - undersøkende avhørsteknikk og uskyldspresumsjonen.”

Download and read the NORDEM annual report 2013 here.

Lagdommerne Dag Brathole og Vidar Stensland har vært sekondert gjennom NORDEM til EULEX, EUs justisoperasjon i Kosovo, siden august 2013. I en artikkel i domstolsmagasinet «Rett på sak» forteller de om sin hverdag som dommere i henholdsvis Mitrovica Basic Court i nord og i Kosovo Property Agency Appeals Court i Pristina.

NORDEM/the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and the Al Jazeera Media Training & Development Center, are organizing a human rights and media workshop for journalists. The workshop will take place at Al Jazeera’s headquarters in Doha, 27 April-1 May, and is supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  

Internet voting continues to be controversial both within and beyond Norway. With the "I-voting" trials of 2011 and 2013, Norway joined a small group of countries that have allowed binding votes submitted by the Internet.

The Carter Center's report on the Internet Voting Pilot has just been launched.

NORDEM deploys one long-term and one short-term observer to the EU Election Observation Mission in relation to the Tripartite Elections in Malawi on 20 May.

On 2 April 2014, the China Programme representing the Faculty of Law visited Renmin University Law School and took part in a ceremony where both a Memorandum of Understanding and a Student Exchange Agreement between the two Law Schools were signed.

After the armed conflict in 1998/1999 in Kosovo, more than 40.000 claims were submitted by Albanians, Serbs and other minorities who claimed that they lost their property as a result of the conflict. Two Norwegians lawyers are now dealing with the final batch of claims as part of Kosovo Property Agency.

The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) is embarking on a hectic year as five of 14 member countries hold elections. By the end of the year more than 40 million voters will have had the chance to cast their vote in the region.

NORDEM has published a Special Report on the elections in Zimbabwe in 2013. The report The Elections in Zimbabwe on 31 July 2013 provides a thorough analysis primarily of the technical aspects of the elections, complementing the observer reports that have been published by other organisations.

NORDEM has been tasked by Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send 36 election observers to observe the upcoming presidential election in Ukraine on 25 May. The Norwegian delegation will consist of six long term and up to 30 short term observers from the NORDEM roster and will be part of the election observation mission carried out by the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE).

In early March, NORDEM co-hosted the conference «Transitional Cosmopolitanism through Courts», which gathered prominent scholars from several disciplines to discuss cosmopolitan progression advanced through courts.

This week Therese Abrahamsen embarked on her first NORDEM long term assignment with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna.

Mette Bakken joined the IDEA’s Regional Office in Africa (Pretoria) in January 2014 to support its work in the fields of electoral processes, political parties and gender.

NORDEM values highly the entry into cooperation with International IDEA. This secondment falls in line with the very core activities of NORDEM and our ambition to strengthen our election engagement and expertise further.

NORDEM rekrutterer nå følgende kompetanseprofiler til beredskapsstyrken:

Lene Wetteland from the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) briefed NORDEM roster members and others about the human rights situation in Central Asia at the first OSCE forum organized by NORDEM.

Berit Bachen Dahle, former police investigator and sexual and gender based violence expert, has been part of a four-member panel of independent specialists conducting an independent external review for the International Criminal Court (ICC).

This report is the result of a research visit to Cairo made by Kari Vogt and Nelly Van Doorn, January 16th - 25th, 2013.

The primary aim of this visit was to research the condition and the main themes of debates, in particular legal themes, as brought up by Egypt’s religious minorities, especially the Coptic Christian communities that are around ten percent of the entire population of around 85 million.

The report is available in pdf format or in docx.format.

Educationforpeace.com, the resource website supported under the Oslo Coalition Teaching for Tolerance programme, is now available in Bahasa (Indonesia).

Justice Through Equality: Building Religious Knowledge for Legal Reform in Muslim Family Laws is now available in farsi

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.

Justice Through Equality: Building Religious Knowledge for Legal Reform in Muslim Family Laws is now available.

Muslim family law is a sensitive and contested subject. In recent decades, even as most Muslim countries have taken on international legal obligations to promote women’s equality, a political push for ‘Islamisation’ of the state and its laws has resulted in new discriminatory rules. At the same time, developments such as the reformed Moroccan family code of 2004, based both on Islamic sources and international human rights, show that legal reform towards gender equality is possible.

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.