Date: Tuesday 20 August Time: 14:30-17:00 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. 500 years tells the story of mounting resistance in Guatemala’s recent history. The documentary tells the epic story that led Guatemala to a tipping point […]
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 […]
Date: Thursday 22 August Time: 18:00-19:30 Venue: Auditorium 1, University of Bergen Law School This event is part of the Bergen Exchanges 2019. For a full schedule of the week’s events, see here. Along the Niger River, the Kebbawa stand out because of their nomadic lifestyle. Little is known about these migrant fishermen who form […]
We regret to inform you that we have to cancel this year’s Annual Lecture on Law and Social Transformation. Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj was prevented from boarding her flight at Guatemala’s national airport on Sunday. CMI and the University of Bergen will be making a formal complaint to the air company. Indigenous rights is one […]
Date: 20 August 2019 Time: 12:15-13:30 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. Truth commissions on violations against indigenous peoples In 2018 the Norwegian Parliament established a truth and reconciliation commission to look into historic abuses committed against […]
Date: Wednesday 21 August Time: 13:30-15:00 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. What is it like to be a female judge? What are the incentives and obstacles that women face on the road to judgeship in different […]
Innovative Teaching on Law & Social Change: student perspectives
Date: 23 August 2019 Time: 14:30-15:30 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. LawTransform and partner institutions in Brazil, the USA, South Africa and India won an INTPART grant (2018-21) to collaborate on strengthening their teaching in the […]
Keynote by Rachel Sieder: Indigenous rights as political tools – struggles over land and identity
Date: 20 August 2019 Time: 09:00-10:30 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 Rachel Sieder (CIESAS/CMI) Indigenous peoples ́ special rights to territory are grounded in their identity as well as their historical discrimination and dispossession. […]
Bergen as a Human Rights City
Date: 19 August 2019 Time: 09:45-10:45 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. Bergen City Council in 2018 voted to be a Human Rights City. What does this imply in terms of commitments? How can this be a […]
Researching sexual and reproductive rights lawfare, drivers of politicization and health effects of criminalization
Date: 21 August 2019 Time: 12:00-13:30 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. A series of LawTransform projects investigate the politicized and legalized struggles over sexual and reproductive rights that have intensified across the globe over the past […]