Date: Friday 24. August Time: 10:10 – 11:10 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided nine child protection cases brought against the Norwegian state. Parents disagreeing with the state’s child welfare interventions have brought their complaints to the Court, alleging a breach of […]

Date: Friday 24. August Time: 09:00 – 10:00 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Article 3 of the UNCRC requires that “In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be […]

Date: Thursday 23. August Time: 09:00 – 10:30 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Courts, traditionally oriented towards parental rights and presumptive autonomous individuals, are often criticized for not focusing on children’s interests, rights and competencies. Children, who are at the centre of cases relating to them (child custody, child protection, […]

Date: Monday 20. August Time: 11:15 – 12:15 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen The first decade of the millennium has witnessed a surge in structural cases decided by courts of the Global South regarding health rights and their social determinants. In widely discussed mega decisions adopted in India, Colombia and Argentina […]

Date: Thursday 23 August 2018 Time: 18:00-19:30 Place: Auditorium 4, University of Bergen faculty of Law, Bergen Keynote address: David and Goliath: Children’s participation in immigration proceedings What does it mean to adopt a children’s rights-based approach to immigration and asylum law. Notwithstanding the vast literature on children’s participation on the one hand, and on […]

From human rights to local justice & the quiet power of indicators Date: Wednesday 22 August Time: 15:30-17:30 Place: Bergen University Aula  Keynote address and roundtable  From human rights to local justice & the quiet power of indicators with Sally Engle Merry, NYU How are international human rights «vernacularized» and applied in local contexts? And […]

Date: Monday 20 August 2018 Time: 09:30-11.00 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen The right to health aims to secure for all the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, but what when resource scarcity makes it impossible to provide optimal health care for the entire population? Can the right […]