Brazil will host COP30 in November, the annual climate negotiations aimed at addressing the harmful impacts human activities have on the climate. This year’s COP30 holds special significance as it will be held in the Amazon, the world’s most biodiverse biome. Despite the challenging geopolitical climate, particularly due to the second presidency of Trump, Brazil […]

LawTransform is proud to collaborate with Cine Latino on the “Green is the New Red” screening, followed by a Q&A session with the film’s director Anna Recalde Miranda moderated by Siri Gloppen.”Green is the New Red” is an insightful documentary about why environmental activism has become life-threatening. During the Cold War, communists were seen as […]

📢 Join us for a crucial discussion on how advocacy groups mobilise for and against sexual and reproductive rights during and after Brazil’s Bolsonaro. This presentation will explore how Brazil’s anti-gender and anti-sexuality movements evolved to persist after Bolsonaro left office in 2022. Special attention will be given to abortion rights and gender identity policies. […]

This event, organized by LawTransform and Minojur Bergen as part of our International Women’s Day commemoration, will explore critical issues surrounding women’s participation in the labor market, the gender pay gap, and the unique challenges women face in the football industry. Our panel will feature professors, industry professionals, and legal experts from around the world, […]

In proud collaboration with Bergen Global & Cine Latino, join us for a (free) movie screening of the incredible story detailed in “Isla familia”. The documentary follows independent journalist Abraham Jiménez Enoa during the last 3 years of his life, and the complex reality of a journalist operating through pressure by an unfriendly regime, all […]

📢 Join us for a crucial discussion on transnational anti-gender movements and their impact on human rights and democracy! Across the globe, organized anti-gender movements are challenging gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights, and democracy itself. What are their strategies, and how can we resist this backlash? 🔹 Speakers: ✨ Neil Datta – Founder & Executive Director […]

Welcome to this RDV-seminar with Munzoul Assal on External mediation dilemmas in Sudan conflict: Jeddah and IGAD mediation initiatives. Sudan’s war will soon complete its second year without foreseeable possibility for ending it in the near future. The war has inflicted egregious suffering and resulted in one of the most serious humanitarian disasters in the world. […]

We welcome you to the RDV panel with Dr. Ayo Sogunro (author, essayist and human rights lawyer), Dr. Matthew Gichohi (Post Doctoral Researcher, CMI), and Erwin Navarro (Skeiv verden vest) moderated by Dr. Liv Tennessen (Co-director, LawTransform, Senior researcher, CMI). Queerphobia has become an issue of political contestation across the world. Transnational groups and governments, […]

We invite you to our breakfast seminar with Jakub  Konečný, the Chech Republic Public Defender of Rights The lecture will be focused on the desegregation of education in the Czech Republic, particularly with regard to how the Office of the Ombudsman has been involved in addressing this human rights issue.

Research on trust is highly interdisciplinary and has produced an impressive body of knowledge about its forms, causes and consequences. However, existing research agendas have notable biases, two of which are the focus of this presentation: first, research privileges trust while marginalising distrust, resulting in an incomplete and flawed understanding; second, it engages in sweeping generalisations, overlooking distinctions