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Master of Laws Natalia Torres Zuniga at Norwegian Centre for Human Rights will be defending the thesis Ideology critique and the Legitimacy of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Challenging the Constitutional Analogy, Subsidiarity and Democratic Transformation for the degree of Ph.D.

Master of Laws Ludovica Chiussi at University of Oslo Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and at the University of Bologna (School of Law) will be defending the thesis Corporations and Human Rights- under General Principles of Law for the degree of Ph.D.

Master of Laws Sofie A. E. Høgestøl will be defending the thesis Seniority as an Element of Case Selection - A Study of Five Legal Frameworks that Have Governed the Selection of Cases at International Criminal Courts for the degree of Ph.D.

Sevda Clark will be defending the thesis The Child Subject - An Intertextual Reconstruction of Liberal subjectivity for the degree of Ph.D. 

Ole Henrik Borchgrevink Hansen will be defending the thesis Public education and diversity: promoting tolerance and autonomy in liberal democracies for the degree of Ph.D.

 Sigrid Redse Johansen will be defending the thesis On military necessity: And the commander’s assessment of military necessity under the international law of armed conflict during conduct of hostilities for the degree of Ph.D.

A workshop organized by researchers focusing on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights with the support of the Norwegian Latin American Research Network and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.

River Kate Hustad at Norwegian Centre for Human Rights will be defending the thesis: Government belongs where there is Poverty - The obligations of states in International Human Rights Law to Break the Chains of Poverty for the degree of Ph.D.

Yong Zhou at Norwegian Centre for Human Rights will be defending the thesis: Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) and Hydropower Development: Institutional Constraints on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the Party-State China for the degree of Ph.D.

The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights will be hosting an interdisciplinary conference for young researchers entitled: ‘Nordic Approaches to Foreign Fighters’. The conference will be held in Oslo, Norway. 

Isabel Mota Borges will be defending the thesis: International Law and Environmental Displacement: Towards a New Human Rights-Based Protection Paradigm for the degree of Ph.D.