We research how rights can be promoted and protected. We study how laws and courts are used to improve the lives of poor and marginalized people.

In 2010, a UN Resolution explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS). But has this international recognition improved ...

Ethiopia has great success in its work to eradicate poverty. Yet, the human rights situation in the country makes cooperation a challenging task for the international community. Norway should support the country´s human rights work by strengthening Ethiopia's internal debates on human rights, says CMI-researchers. -The best way to do this is through institutional cooperation, and close collaboration with Ethiopian partners.

Uganda's new anti-homosexuality law has disheartened the international human rights community. Would it have been possible to foresee Museveni's approval of the law? In an ideal world, actors promoting human rights can design projects and interventions and see them through with norms and laws in mind. In the real world, where politics and erratic decisions come into play, human rights work is extremely challenging.

This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development ...

This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development ...

The foundational principle of human rights is that all human beings are equal in rights, dignity, and worth. Yet we live in a world ravaged ...

This paper focuses on family law reform in Sudan-a country that has been in a state of perpetual conflict that stretches back long before its ...

Water is essential to all aspects of human life. It is vital for public health, an essential component of national and local economies and a ...

Reform of family law is considered among the most difficult to achieve since it contests ‘the notion of women and children as property’. ...

Mid-term review of two human rights organisations in Tanzania: Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) and Zanzibar Legal Services Centre (ZLSC). ...

This thesis aims to investigate the conditions for legal enforcement of the right to food in Guatemala. In recent years there has been an increase ...

The project analyses the strategic use of rights and law in battles over abortion rights in Latin America – and the various effects of ...

In spite of more than three decades of efforts to promote women's rights in Bangladesh, the results have been piecemal and only slowly forthcoming, ...

Operationalizing a rights-based approach to health service delivery (RBA-healthdelivery) is a joint effort by CMI, The World Bank Institute ...

Right to health through litigation? Can court enforced health rights improve health policy? The project investigates whether litigation can ...

Human rights have been an important area of research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) for the past 20 years, and continue to be so today. ...

CMI was responsible for preparing a synthesis report discussing the relevance of Danish support for ameliorating key human rights and democratisation ...

The tenth in a series of yearbooks, this edition contains articles on topical human rights issues as well as surveys of individual countries. ...

The book chapter presents an analytical approach which contributes to a realistic framework for examining economic and social rights, even under ...

This is a comparative study of responses to active human rights criticism by two donor countries, Norway and the Netherlands vis-á-vis Kenya ...