Date: Tuesday 21 August Time: 11:30-12:30 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen What is driving the political attention to homosexuality or “gayism” (meaning any form of non-heteronormative sexual orientation and gender identity) in contemporary African politics? Why is the focus so strongly on criminal law as the means to guard against […]
Date: Monday 20 August Time: 12:30-13:30 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen The past year has seen surprising changes towards legalization of abortion in countries known for their strict abortion laws. Chile liberalized their ‘under-no-circumstances’ stance in August 2017; Ireland went to the polls on Friday 25 May to vote in […]
The Centre on Law and Social Transformation and the Rafto Foundation are happy to invite you to a breakfast seminar on women activism in the Arab world. Women activists are fighting for protection against violence, equal rights within marriage and reproductive health rights across the Middle East and Northern Africa. However, the fight for gender […]
The Centre on Law and Social Transformation is happy to invite you to a seminar on graphs, diagrams and presenting complicated things in an easy manner. This morning we are joined by Elin Monstad who will give a talk on this exciting topic. Monstad is a PhD. candidate at the department of comparative politics (UiB). […]
The Centre on Law and Social Transformation and Bergen Resource Centre is happy to invite you to a breakfast seminar on LGBTQ rights in Latin America. Date: Friday, 16th of March Time: 08:30 AM Venue: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, 5006 Bergen, Hordaland Panel: Javier Corrales (Amherst College), Hans Geir Aasmundsen (UiB), […]
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. […]
Trans* lawfare is increasingly visible – and diverse – on all continents. The nature of the battles, and their relationships to other LGBTIQ-struggles (lesbian, gay, bi- and intersex, queer) differ radically both between and within societies. Some – even highly homophobic – societies have a tradition of recognising (certain) transgender identities. Elsewhere trans* people are […]
Time: 18:00-19:30 The increasing judicialization of politics and social struggles in Latin America over the past decades – from demands for transitional justice, and constitutions recognizing indigenous rights, to judicialized environmental conflicts and an ‘epidemic’ of health rights litigation – is also reflected in the scholarship in and on the region. But while the body […]
Time: 12:30-13:30 Across the globe, “morality” issues such as homosexuality and abortion have become high stake politics, constituting rallying points for political mobilization and contestation in the political braches as well as in the courts. Abortion related questions play a central political role in in Latin America, issues of same sex relations do the same […]