Date: 31st January 2018 Venue: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development Jekteviksbakken 31. Time: 11:00 to 12:00. We are happy to announce that one of the Centre on Law and Social Transformation’s leading expert on the relationship between law and health policy, Camila Ganiella, invites you and your network to a seminar to discuss one […]
Time: 08:30-9.30 The Centre on Law and Social Transformation is happy to invite you to a breakfast seminar on LGBT rights in Egypt. The waving of a rainbow flag during a concert in Egypt on September 22. sparked a modern-day witch-hunt leading to the arrest of 33 people, some of whom were caught in sting […]
Seminar & Workshop 1st and 2nd of February, 2018 CMI, Just Faaland meeting room 3rd floor In August 2017, Chile lifted the blanket ban which criminalized abortion without exception. The new law only allows abortion on limited grounds: in cases of rape, where the mother’s life is at risk, or where the fetus is unviable. […]
Time: 8.30-9.30 The Centre on Law and Social Transformation invites you to the launch of our new exciting research project entitled “Women on the Bench”. The research project will examine the role of women in the courts in five fragile and conflict affected states. We ask: How does a history of conflict affect the number […]
Time: 15 January, at 12:00 – 13:30 Place: Jekteviken 31, Bergen, Hordaland Welcome to Dr Zeke Emanuel’s lecture at Centre on Law and Social Transformation We are happy to invite you to a lecture on the future of Obamacare with Professor and one of Obamacare`s architects – Zeke Emanuel. Professor Zeke Emanuel is a cancer […]
Time: 2 December, at 6pm – 8pm Place: Rafto Foundation for Human Rights, Menneskerettighetenes plass 1, 5007 Bergen, Hordaland WELCOME TO PUBLIC PANEL DEBATE AT THE RAFTO HOUSE On December 2, 1984 an explosion occurred at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal in Central India, and thousands died within hours. Tens of thousands have been injured, maimed, […]
Time: Monday, 4 December, 4:00PM – 5:30PM Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31 Panel: Nnimmo Bassey (Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation/Rafto Prize Laureate), Salil Tripathi (Senior Adviser, Institute for Human Rights and Business), and Namita Wahi (Fellow, Centre for Policy Research/ LawTransform). Moderator: Tina Søreide (Professor of Law and Economics, NHH/Leader of Corruption […]
Den største flyktningebølgen siden 2. verdenskrig, som traff Europa i kjølvannet av den pågående borgerkrigen i Syria, har resultert i en opphetet debatt om statens forpliktelser i henhold til nasjonal lovgivning og internasjonale menneskerettigheter. Men hvilke rettigheter har staten til å innvilge eller avslå oppholdstillatelse? Og hvilken handlingsfrihet har staten til å tilbakekalle oppholdstillatelse og statsborgerskap? […]
Zimbabwe is currently at the center of world attention as the military are negotiating with Robert Mugabe about his exit after 37 years in power. Should current events be seen as a coup, or more as a factional struggle within the regime to clarify who will become the main man after Mugabe?
Time: 14.15-15.45 Join us for a book presentation of the newly published book The Impossible Imperative with author Jill Duerr Berrcik. The Impossible Imperative brings to life the daily efforts of child welfare professionals working on behalf of vulnerable children and families. Stories that highlight the work, written by child welfare staff on the front […]