The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) welcomes the arrival of a new guest researcher who will be joining us for a month-long stay.
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NCHR welcomes Mekonnen Fisseha Gebiremichael, as new PhD fellow. His research focuses on the proposed transitional justice approach in Ethiopia regarding the war in Tigray, with a particular emphasis on accountability.
Norsk senter for menneskerettigheter (SMR) arrangerte nylig et seminar om de siste barnevernssakene mot Norge i den Europeiske menneskerettsdomstolen (EMD).
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) welcomes a new leadership group that is ready to steer steadily to provide high quality human rights education in turbulent times for human rights internationally.
Organisasjoner, foreninger og enkeltpersoner kan nå nominere kandidater (personer eller organisasjoner) til UiOs menneskerettighetspris – Lisl og Leo Eitingers fond. Fristen er 15. mars.
Norsk senter for menneskerettigheter (SMR) får tildelt 100 millioner kroner fra Utenriksdepartementet til videreføring og fornying av den internasjonale programvirksomheten. De ulike prosjektene skal bidra til at forskningsbasert menneskerettslig kunnskap brukes i praksis for å møte menneskerettighetsutfordringer.
Planetary Crises and International Human Rights: Governing Contemporary Threats through Litigation and Civic Action. An International Conference organised by the Research Group on Global Challenges to Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice.
Professor Gentian Zyberi of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights has been appointed as a member of the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) for a non-renewable 5 year mandate, for the period June 2023 – June 2028.
The 40th edition of the Jean-Pictet Competition took place between 24 February and 4 March 2023, in Durrës, Albania. The team from the University of Oslo reached the semi-finals for the second time.
The NORHED II Project 70921: Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies (NORAD) and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights invite applications for a PhD-level course to take place in person in Oslo, on 23- 25 October 2023. Expenses for the selected participants from the partner institutions will be covered under the Norhed II project.
Maria Leal Lillo, who is a graduate of the Human Rights in Theory and Practice Master’s programme, was recently awarded for her thesis on rights awareness in circular migration. The competition marked the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
NCHR students are working on an advocacy project in collaboration with Scholars at Risk. They welcome you to learn more about Belarusian student and human rights activist Marfa Rabkova.
This symposium will bring together scholars and researchers from various fields of social sciences, the humanities and law to share and exchange their experiences and research results with respect to the aspects of the limits encountered when striving to promote the right to Freedom of Religion or Belief.
Together with the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, the NCHR was part of the official inauguration ceremony celebrating the establishment of the Center for Law and Religion at Bauch State University in Nigeria.
Do you plan to present a Masters thesis on human rights, the right to free speech, and/or democracy in the spring semester 2023? A maximum of ten student scholarships of NOK 30.000 are available, but only for students at the Faculty of Law, UiO.
Can you make a difference in the world while gaining practical skills and deepening understanding? The students of the Human Rights in Practice course get the opportunity to try, in a new course approach where they work towards justice.
In June 2022, postdoctoral research fellow Natalia Torres Zuniga visited Santiago de Chile, City of Valdivia in Southern Chile, and the town of San Jose de la Mariquina (Valdivia). The visit aimed to gather information about the country's forestry industry, constitutional change and political economy.
Kan man gjøre en forskjell her i verden? Studentene på emnet Human Rights in Practice får muligheten til å prøve, i et nytt undervisningsopplegg hvor de skal jobbe for rettferdighet.
What are the intersections of human rights and sustainability, and how do the two agendas meet? This three-day conference invited close to a hundred participants to examine the topic from a variety of angles.
The NCHR and partners recently organized a conference presenting two reports, focusing on the existing curricula on human rights at Bulgarian universities, and the introduction of human rights in mandatory legal curriculum in Bulgaria.
It was a pleasure recently to be able to celebrate the MA in Theory and Practice of Human Rights class of 2022 graduation!
Two of NCHR’s doctoral researchers, Elsabe Boshoff and Dinie Arief, presented their doctoral projects in this year’s Human Rights Interdisciplinary PhD Triangle Gathering. It was hosted virtually by the University of Essex on 26-27 April.
The Oslo Coalition is planning an open lecture with Fr. Cyril Hovorun, Professor of Theology and Orthodox priest from Ukraine. He will discuss how religion has become politicized in Russia and how Orthodoxy is shaping politics and political theology in Russia and Eastern Europe.
A team composed of three students from the University of Oslo participated in the 38th edition of the Jean-Pictet Competition, which took place between 19-25 March in Durrës, Albania. The team, coached by NCHR professor Gentian Zyberi, reached the semi-finals of the competition.
Hvilke regler gjelder i krig, og hvilken betydning har en krigsleders fornuft? Og er det juridisk «innafor» å ta livet av en statsleder? Hør generaladvokat Sigrid Redse Johansen og førsteamanuensis Stian Øby Johansen fortelle om betydningen av lover og regler i krig, med eksempler fra krigen i Ukraina.