Date: Friday 24 August Time: 11:20-12:20 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen The United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) places extensive obligations on governments to protect the rights of children. Still, there are huge differences in how the UNCRC is interpreted and what thresholds are set for […]
Date: Friday 24 August Time: 12:30-13:30 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen The Norwegian child protection system is once again under the scrutiny of international mass media. This time it is the BBC that August 3, 2018 published an article titled Norway´s hidden scandal, portraying parents that feel mistreated by the […]
Date: Monday 20 August Time: 14:40 – 16:00 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen We see a growing number of court cases where children challenge the state for not acting responsibly to secure their (and future generations’) rights to a healthy environment. Most of the cases have been lodged before courts […]
Date: Friday 24 August Time: 14:30 – 15:30 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Water is an increasingly scarce resource with pressures from growing populations and industrial developments depleting and polluting water resources, and with changes in the climate exacerbating the situation. Some of the world’s largest cities- including Sao Paulo, […]
Date: Wednesday 22 August Time: 14:00–15:00 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen How is it to be a woman judge? What are the incentives and obstacles that women face on the road to judgeship in different societies? And does it make a difference – to the operation of the court, its […]
Date: Friday 24 August Time: 15:40 – 16:30 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen 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 field of Law & Social Change. The ambition is to improve and […]
The European Court of Human Rights and Child’s Rights
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 […]
Child’s best interest principle
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 […]
Children’s Right to Child Friendly Justice
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, […]
Litigating health rights – what happened with the mega-judgments?
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 […]