Date/Time: 22 March 2022, 14:30-16:00 Venue: HF Library (UiB) and Zoom #WorldWaterDay #localwaterstories On World Water Day 2022 we want to acknowledge and celebrate the efforts by local communities towards protecting their right to drinking water. Experiences in different parts of the globe highlight the multiple challenges that communities face to access drinking water, and the […]
Date: 22 March 2021 Time: 15:00-16:00 Venue: Zoom #World Water Day 2021 How does the recognition of the right to water as a human right actually make a difference to the lives of people who lack adequate access to water and sanitation? In 2010, a United Nations General Assembly resolution recognized the right to safe and […]
Date: 8 March 2021 Time: 15:00-16:00 Venue: Zoom #Master’s Week 2021 Water constitutes the foundation of human life. In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 64/292 recognising the Human Right to Water and Sanitation. Subsequently, constitutionalisation of the Water and Sanitation rights has proliferated, and 31 countries have now constitutionalised the right to […]
Date: Tuesday 18 August 2020 Time: 16:30-17:30 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 #BeEx2020 You can attend the seminar physically at Bergen Global (limited places) or watch the seminar online: https://uib.zoom.us/j/68834021405?pwd=SDJTekRGWHBON1ZxTVloeC9EeDJvdz09 In 2010 the United Nations declared the right to water and sanitation as a Human Right. This was part of an effort to secure everyone […]
Date and Time: 15th of January 2020, 12:00-13:00 Place: Bergen Global, Jektevikksbaken 31 What happens when climate lawsuits do not achieve immediate results? Are there other avenues whereby to catalyze emotions, engagement, and social movements? The Norwegian Climate Case, concerning the Arctic, was not a full-fledged victory—but directors in the Arctic may work in parallel […]
Date: Monday 25 November Time: 12:30-13:30 Place: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 We were live streaming. You can watch the event here: This presentation addresses a number of unanswered questions in current practices of reconciliation and land rights, including: Is reconciliation an end goal to be achieved or is it a process? What is the colonial […]
Playing with the rules – how extractive industries players pursue illicit practices and what can be done about it?
Over the last two decades, several laws and initiatives have been adopted around the world to fight illicit financial flows, but corruption and tax avoidance remain high in the oil, gas and mining sector. What are some of the reasons for that?
Date: Thursday 22 August Time: 09:00-11:00 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 This event is part of the Bergen Exchanges 2019. For a full schedule of the week’s events, see here. Keynote by Leo Heller (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Water): The Human right to water as a governance mechanism and political tool. Water […]
National environmental disasters: cases from Norway and Brazil
Date: Wednesday 13th March 2019 Time: 15:00-16:00 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 The legal department of Concerned Students Norway and the Centre on Law and Social Transformation welcome everyone to a lecture with Professor Stella Emery Santana from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Her lecture will focus on environmental disasters in Brazil, specifically on comparing the […]
Date: 6th March 2019 Time: 08:30-10:00 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 In this Master’s week breakfast seminar, Sara Ekblom and Mathilde Thorsen will present their research related to the right to water. Both Masters theses were written in connection with the LawTransform project Elevating water rights to human rights: Has it strengthened marginalized peoples’ claim […]