Pardoning crimes against humanity: the case of Fujimori

Date: Friday 9th February 2018 Time: 08:30 – 09:30 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Fujimori is a deeply divisive figure in Peru. After his election in 1990, he ruled for a decade. Some consider him a corrupt dictator, while others credit him with saving Peru from economic ruin and leftist […]

Film & Reflection: Corruption in the Global Arms Trade

We invite you to the exclusive screening of the award winning 2016 documentary ‘Shadow World – inside the global arms trade‘ directed by artist/filmmaker Johan Grimonprezbased, based in part on Corruption Watch UK founder Andrew Feinstein’s globally acclaimed book with the same title. After the screening there will be a panel discussion with Andrew Feinstein (Expert […]

Annual Lecture on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

15:30-17:00 – Lecture by Sven-Roald Nystø, Árran Lule Sami Centre, President of the Sami Parliament of Norway for two terms, from 1997 to 2005: “Developing Sami Rights in Norway in a Contemporary Perspective” The lecture will be followed by a panel moderated by Per Selle (Sampol/UiB), with the participation of Elin Monstad (FN-Sambandet), Aaron Spitzer (Sampol/UiB), and Petra Buergelt […]

Does performance-based financing of health care work?

Time: 14.15-15.30 We are happy to announce that a highly recognized expert in health sector reform, Bruno Meessen, from The Institute of Tropical Medicine in Belgium is visiting us here in Bergen. He invites you and your network to a seminar to discuss performance-based financing of health care in low- and middle-income countries-what are they […]

Seminar on Human Rights and TB Control Strategies

Date: 31st January 2018 Venue: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development Jekteviksbakken 31. Time: 11:00 to 12:00. We are happy to announce that one of the Centre on Law and Social Transformation’s leading expert on the relationship between law and health policy, Camila Ganiella, invites you and your network to a seminar to discuss one […]

Crackdown on LGBT rights in Egypt

Time: 08:30-9.30 The Centre on Law and Social Transformation is happy to invite you to a breakfast seminar on LGBT rights in Egypt. The waving of a rainbow flag during a concert in Egypt on September 22. sparked a modern-day witch-hunt leading to the arrest of 33 people, some of whom were caught in sting […]

Abortion Rights & Health Effects: Global perspectives Seminar & Workshop

Seminar & Workshop 1st and 2nd of February, 2018 CMI, Just Faaland meeting room 3rd floor In August 2017, Chile lifted the blanket ban which criminalized abortion without exception. The new law only allows abortion on limited grounds: in cases of rape, where the mother’s life is at risk, or where the fetus is unviable. […]

Project launch: Women on the bench

Time: 8.30-9.30 The Centre on Law and Social Transformation invites you to the launch of our new exciting research project entitled “Women on the Bench”. The research project will examine the role of women in the courts in five fragile and conflict affected states. We ask: How does a history of conflict affect the number […]

The future of the American Healthcare System

Time: 15 January, at 12:00 – 13:30 Place: Jekteviken 31, Bergen, Hordaland Welcome to Dr Zeke Emanuel’s lecture at Centre on Law and Social Transformation We are happy to invite you to a lecture on the future of Obamacare with Professor and one of Obamacare`s architects – Zeke Emanuel. Professor Zeke Emanuel is a cancer […]

Lesson Learned – the Bhopal Disaster

Time: 2 December, at 6pm – 8pm Place: Rafto Foundation for Human Rights, Menneskerettighetenes plass 1, 5007 Bergen, Hordaland WELCOME TO PUBLIC PANEL DEBATE AT THE RAFTO HOUSE  On December 2, 1984 an explosion occurred at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal in Central India, and thousands died within hours. Tens of thousands have been injured, maimed, […]