Evening Exchanges: Law, politics and adolescent sexual and reproductive health: evidence of impact

Date: Tuesday 21 August Time: 18:00-19:30 Place: Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Kalfaveien 31, Bergen Politics and law are major determinants of sexual and reproductive health, affecting the availability and quality of for sexual and reproductive health policies and services, including abortion care, as well as access to information and sex education. […]

Changing the system from within: influencing front level practice and politicians’ mindset

Date: Thursday 23 August Time: 10:40-12:10 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Societies and states are at a crossroads in how children are to be treated, how their rights should be respected and protected. Children’s new position and the emphasis on their rights create tensions and challenge the traditional relationships between […]

Law and Technology

Date: Wednesday 22 August Time: 10:00-11:00 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Technology is changing the law and the legal profession innumerable ways. This roundtable discusses some of the most pertinent issues – from threats that new technologies – by design or default – are posing to our privacy, and the […]

Children’s Right to Health: Childhood obesity

Date: Thursday 23 August Time: 14:30-15:30 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Is childhood obesity a case of medical neglect? Does it warrant state intervention? What is the state’s responsibility in creating a regulatory framework that supports parents in making healthy choices for their children’s nutrition: prohibition of obesogenic marketing for […]

Evening Exchanges: The Role of Law in Global (and National) Health Governance

Date: Monday 20 August Time: 18:00-19:30 Place: Auditorium 4, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen  This roundtable will explore the potential and challenges of harnessing law, including international human rights law, to promote equity and accountability in health systems and global health governance.  Agenda 2030, and the Sustainable Development Goals, which followed the Millennium Development […]

Making professional decisions and judgements

Date: Thursday 23 August Time: 12:20–13:30 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is a global and a European standard. It is a legal document with global reach and thus a cosmopolitan imprint, as well as the most far-reaching document explicitly stating […]

Authoritarian Constitutionalism

Date: Wednesday 22 August Time: 11:15–12:15 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Regimes moving towards more authoritarian forms of rule, often go to great length to formally amend their constitutions – which seems a paradox since they often seem not to care about adhering to them. Why do authoritarian rulers care about their […]

Beyond virtue and vice: rethinking sex, health and criminal law

Date: Tuesday 21 August Time: 12:30-13:15 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen All societies have laws regulating sexuality and reproduction, and the adequacy of these laws are often the centre of heated debates – as during the #metoo campaign. In this seminar we will discuss the criminal regulation of sex, gender […]

Researching Intersectionality

Date: Tuesday 21 August Time: 10:30-11:20 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Human rights violations are closely related to structural inequalities in society – when we look at barriers to the implementation of the right to health we need to take as a starting point how overlapping structures of discrimination – […]

Chr. Michelsen Prize Lunch with Maja Janmyr

Date: Thursday 23 August Time: 13:45-14:30 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Maja Janmyr (Professor of Law at the University of Oslo and Head of the LawTransform Migration Unit) was awarded the Chr. Michelsen Prize for 2018 for her article “No Country of Asylum: ‘Legitimizing’ Lebanon’s Rejection of the 1951 Refugee […]