Date: Monday 25 November Time: 12:30-13:30 Place: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 We were live streaming. You can watch the event here: This presentation addresses a number of unanswered questions in current practices of reconciliation and land rights, including: Is reconciliation an end goal to be achieved or is it a process? What is the colonial […]
Playing with the rules – how extractive industries players pursue illicit practices and what can be done about it?
Over the last two decades, several laws and initiatives have been adopted around the world to fight illicit financial flows, but corruption and tax avoidance remain high in the oil, gas and mining sector. What are some of the reasons for that?
Den europeiske menneskerettighetsdomstolen slo nylig fast at Norge har krenket retten til familieliv i en sak om tvangsadopsjon av et barnevernsbarn. Flertallet i domstolens storkammer dømte i favør av den biologiske moren i den mye omtalte Lobben-saken.
NCHS Annual Meeting: Humanitarian Challenges in Complex Contexts
Date: 5 November 2019 Time: 09:00-16:30 Location: Bergen Global CMI/UiB, Jekteviksbakken 31 This one-day event is an initiative of the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS) and the Norwegian Research Council’s funded projects “Humanitarian Diplomacy” and “SuperCamp”. The annual meeting for the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS) Research Network on Humanitarian Efforts will take […]
A Norwegian film production team follows the South-African movement #FeesMustFall, documenting the women, queer people and trans people that played a central part in the movement’s creation – whilst at the same time experiencing the challenges of being white moviemakers in a South-African context. NB: change in time!
Date: Thursday 22 August Time: 09:00-11:00 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. Keynote by Leo Heller (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Water): The Human right to water as a governance mechanism and political tool. Water […]
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, […]
Date: 5th June 2019 Time: 18:00 Venue: Litteraturhuset i Bergen, Østre Skostredet 5 From the decriminalization of homosexuality in India to the persecution in Chechnya, global LGBT rights are in constant change. This seminar will explore the state of LGBT rights in different areas of the world and the driving forces behind recent developments and […]
Date: Thursday 21 March Time: 16:00 – 18:00 Place: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 This event is a collaboration with Cine Latino/BIFF. Set in a Quechua community in Ayacucho, this movie follows a father and son who are artists practicing the characteristic regional art of “retablo”. The movie centers on gender roles among indigenous communities in […]
Date: Tuesday 26 March 2019 Time: 08:30 – 09:30 Place: Rafto Foundation for Human Rights, Menneskerettighetenes plass 1, Bergen The past decade the world has witnessed a dramatic change in the political system in Myanmar. In 2011 a government led by President Thein Sein, a former General, replaced the military junta and initiated reforms that took […]