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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation 2018
Time: 20. – 24. August 2018 Main venue: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31. For other venues, please see the program. Open to the public. The Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation is a week of public seminars, project workshops and social events – and a PhD course on Effects of Lawfare. We invite academics, students and practitioners from all […]
Time: 14.15-15.30 We are happy to announce that a highly recognized expert in health sector reform, Bruno Meessen, from The Institute of Tropical Medicine in Belgium is visiting us here in Bergen. He invites you and your network to a seminar to discuss performance-based financing of health care in low- and middle-income countries-what are they […]
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 […]
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: 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, […]