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 […]
Corruption and Law Enforcement
Date: 19 August 2019 Time: 12:30-13:30 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. Corruption is a major impediment to sustainable development and achieving the SDGs, and still, few governments have a convincing strategy for uncovering the crime and […]
Keynote by Louise Shelley: Natural resource corruption – How to research and address it?
Date: 19 August 2019 Time: 11:00-12:15 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 Louise Shelley, Director, Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) and Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. Efforts to […]
Legitimacy and judicial protection of human rights and children’s rights in Russia
Protection of the child’s rights is declared as one of the priority goals in the field of social policy in Russia. However, the current situation regarding the protection of children’s rights is far from the intended goals. The politicization of this issue does not contribute to the improvement of this situation. Concentration on foreign policy, […]