Norsk senter for menneskerettigheter - Norwegian Centre for Human Rights

15/10/2026

Cooperation, knowledge-sharing, and long-term partnerships are key to supporting justice reform in Ukraine. 🤝

NCHR visited Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk to meet partners working with children's rights, investigative interviewing, and criminal justice education.

Together with our longstanding partner JustGroup, we met with Ukraine's working group developing a national protocol for investigative interviewing of children, contributing Norwegian experience on child-friendly justice and investigative interviewing.

We also visited King Danylo University (official), a new partnership on pre-trial investigation, investigative interviewing, and human rights in criminal justice. The cooperation aims to support the next generation of legal professionals in Ukraine and is funded by HK-dir The Directorate for Higher Education and Skills through the Nansen EDU Programme, Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.

The visit concluded with productive discussions with representatives of Norway's Nansen Support Programme for Ukraine on strengthening partnership capacity and compliance. 🌱

📖 Read more in the article below:

Representatives from the NCHR visited Lviv and King Danylo University in Ivano-Frankivsk to support ongoing justice reform efforts and strengthen partnerships with the university sector.

15/10/2026

The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights is excited to welcome Professor Beate Sjåfjell to the Centre! Sjåfjell is a law professor and a sustainability scholar, whose academic goal in life is to do her part in ensuring the contribution of business to a safer and more just world. We look forward to working with her! 🙌

The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights is excited to welcome Professor Beate Sjåfjell to the Centre! Sjåfjell is a law professor and a sustainability scholar, whose academic goal in life is to do her part in ensuring the contribution of business to a safer and more just world. We look forward to wo...

15/10/2026

Open lecture with Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dr. Michael O' Flaherty ❗

⏰ : October 21, 16:00-17:00
📍 : Domus Juridica, Auditorium 2

What is the state of human rights in Europe today? Join Dr. Michael O'Flaherty for an engaging discussion!

There are limited seats available - register to secure your spot now! Read more on our website 👇

What is the state of human rights in Europe today? Join Dr. Michael O'Flaherty for an engaging discussion!

13/10/2026

How do we strengthen accountability and the rule of law in times of war? ⚖️

Justice is built case by case, interview by interview.

Ukrainian investigators, prosecutors, and academics recently met in Budapest to further strengthen investigative interviewing practices grounded in human rights, professionalism, and evidence-based methods. Justice reform requires strong investigative capacities, respect for procedural rights, and a commitment to continuous learning. 🤝

The training was part of a broader effort to support effective, ethical, and human rights-compliant institutions in Ukraine.

The training was organised by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and JustGroup, with support from the Nansen Support Programme for Ukraine, Norad, and delivered by trainers from the Norwegian Police University College Politihøgskolen and Kripos.

📖 Read more below:

Investigators, prosecutors, and academics from Ukraine met in Budapest to strengthen their competence in investigative interviewing of suspects, with a particular emphasis on Russian prisoners of war. Participants received structured feedback on their interviewing practice, guided by trainers from t...

24/09/2026

Volume 44, Issue 33 of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights is out now! ⚖️🎉

This issue contains cutting-edge research on pressing human rights challenges including corporate due diligence, migrants' rights, AI, gender stereotypes, open justice and state violence.

Read the full issue here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rnhr20/44/3

Inside this issue:
🔹 “Process or Performance? Remediation and Remedy Under Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence Legislation” by Ben Grama
🔹 “Smoothing Out the Edges: the Influence of Governments Before the European Commission of Human Rights in Collective Expulsion Cases and its Impact on Current jurisprudence” by Jessica Sarue Klüger
🔹 “Beyond Algorithms: Reimagining Human Rights Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” by Karell Mawla Ibnu Kamali
🔹 “Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes in Labour Law under CEDAW's Transformative Mandate” Hoang Minh Dang
🔹 “Confidentiality v public hearing under article 6 ECHR: mediation’s impact on the fair trial paradigm” by Viktoriia Olexandra H.
🔹 “Death and Denial at the hands of the Danish State” by ergün cakal
Book reviews:
🔹Pablo Marshall Marshall on “The Right to Legal Personhood of Marginalised Groups: Achieving Equal Recognition Before the Law for All” by Anna Arstein-Kerslake
🔹 Rama Kusuma Irjananta on “Curating Human Rights: Displaying, Combating and Obscuring Human Rights Violations in Museums” by Robin Ostow

We invite scholars, practitioners, and anyone passionate about human rights to explore these important contributions!📚

https://www.jus.uio.no/smr/english/research/njhr/issues/2026/issue-3-2026.html

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16/09/2026

Join us for a discussion of a book “Judging Poverty and Inequality in Brazil” written by Tainá Garcia Maia! 📖

The event will introduce the book and its key contributions to the study of poverty, inequality, and judicial decision-making in Brazil, with a focus on the case law of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

The book is now available as an open access publication! 🙌

⏰: Sep. 23, 2026 2:00 PM–3:00 PM
📍: Domus Juridica, room 7227

You can read more, access the book, and sign up for the event by visiting our website:

Join us for a discussion of a book “Judging Poverty and Inequality in Brazil” written by Tainá Garcia Maia. The event will introduce the book and its key contributions to the study of poverty, inequality, and judicial decision-making in Brazil, with a focus on the case law of the Brazilian Fede...

14/09/2026

Elsabe Boshoff will soon be defending her thesis «A human right to sustainable development: Its recognition, content and operationalisation – Global and African perspectives for the degree of PhD»!

⏰: September 21, 10:15-11:00
📍: Gamle Festsal, Domus Academica

The event is open to the public. Read more about the event and how you can follow it here! 👇

10/09/2026

We recently hosted the Second Euro-Sino Forum on Human Rights Education! 🎓

The event brought together an expert group from China and several European academics, fostering new partnerships and exchanging experiences on curriculum development and teaching methods in human rights education and human rights programs in China and Norway.

We were excited to take part in such timely and interesting discussions! Read more on our website: 👇

08/09/2026

What if the key to better criminal investigations wasn't asking harder questions, but listening better? 👂

For the past five years, a team of researchers and police instructors in Brazil have been doing exactly that: replacing coercive interrogation with investigative interviewing, a science-backed approach that is producing more reliable evidence, more cooperative witnesses, and — perhaps surprisingly — more trust between police and communities.

We spoke with Dr. William Weber Cecconello of CogJus- Laboratório de Ensino e Pesquisa em Cognição e Justiça to find out how they did it, what changed, and what comes next:

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For the past five years, a small team of researchers and police instructors across Brazil have been trying to get law enforcement to listen more, and the results, they said, have surprised even them.

20/07/2026

How do we turn the Méndez Principles into day-to-day practice across different legal systems and policing cultures? 🌏

Earlier this month, 45 researchers, trainers, and practitioners from 14 countries gathered in Bodø, Norway for the workshop "From Research to Practice: Implementing Investigative Interviewing Globally", hosted by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, the ImpleMéndez COST Action, and the Norwegian Police University College.

The workshop provided a valuable opportunity to exchange experiences, identify shared challenges, and explore practical strategies for implementing investigative interviewing based on human rights and evidence-based practices. From Brazil and Indonesia to Ukraine and the UK, participants shared lessons learned from reform efforts in their respective countries, contributing to the development of a forthcoming implementation guide that will support the global application of the Méndez Principles.

A big thank you to all participants for contributing their expertise, insights, and commitment to strengthening justice systems worldwide 👏

This summer, Bodø became a testbed for the future of police interviewing: 45 participants from 14 countries gathered to share practical knowledge and experiences. The event focused on implementing human rights-based investigative interviewing methodology — a promising step forward for the field, ...