Time: 08:30 – 09:30. Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen This seminar places Norwegian abortion debates and policies in a Global Perspective. Women’s right to abortion is highly contested across the globe. At a national and international level, groups fight both for the right of women to decide – and against. In […]
Time: 08:30 – 09:30. Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Panel: Jaha Dukureh (women’s right activist) in conversation with Vegard Vibe (UiB/LawTransform). Jaha Dukureh was subjected to female genital mutilation in Gambia when she was a little more than a week old. Becoming an activist she played a pivotal role in […]
Time: 09:50-10:50 Land remains a main source of livelihood and wealth – and of social conflict and inequality. This is exacerbated as population pressures, development needs and climate change increase the competition for scarce resources, often threatening already marginalized groups depending on the land. Property rights to land and natural resources have been fiercely contested […]
India faces serious challenges in creating development processes that generate economic growth while being socially inclusive, ecologically sustainable, politically feasible, and in accordance with the Rule of Law. This conference presents findings from the LawTransform project on “Land Rights and Inclusive Sustainable Development in India”, which analyses the political economy of land rights in areas where the adivasis (indigenous population) has a special constitutional protection.