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Rights
Main Research Topic
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.
Enforcement of water rights
CMI Brief | May 2016
In 2010, a UN Resolution explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS). But has this international recognition improved ...
natural resources, water, human rights, Costa Rica, South Africa, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Peru, Zambia
Strengthening human rights in Ethiopia
News | 28 Jan 2014
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.
Promoting human rights in ever changing contexts
News | 31 Mar 2014
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.
Supporting child rights. Synthesis of lessons learned in four countries
Report in External Series | May 2011
This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development ...
Child rights, Guatemala, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan
Supporting child rights: Synthesis of lessons learned in four countries
Report in External Series | Feb 2011
This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development ...
child rights, civil society, mainstreaming, targeting, Guatemala, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan
Shades of dignity: exploring the demands of equality in applying human rights frameworks to health
Journal Article | Jan 2009
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 ...
Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rights
CMI Report | Dec 2017
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 ...
human rights, women, family law, gender, Sudan
Elevating water rights to human rights: Has it strengthened marginalized peoples´ claim for water?
Project | Jan 2017 - Dec 2020
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 ...
Brazil, Costa Rica, India, Peru and South Africa
Ending child marriages – new laws bring progress but hurdles remain
CMI Insight | May 2016
Reform of family law is considered among the most difficult to achieve since it contests ‘the notion of women and children as property’. ...
child marriage, marriage, family law, Malawi, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zambia
Mid-term review of two human rights organisations in Tanzania
Project | Jul - Sep 2015
Mid-term review of two human rights organisations in Tanzania: Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) and Zanzibar Legal Services Centre (ZLSC). ...
Human rights, legal aid, Tanzania
Enough food is not enough - Litigation as a strategy to secure the right to food
Master's Thesis | Oct 2011
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 ...
Guatemala
Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America
Project | Jul 2014 - Jun 2017
The project analyses the strategic use of rights and law in battles over abortion rights in Latin America – and the various effects of ...
Abortion, lawfare, legal mobilization, right to life, right to health, religion, transnational activist networks, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, El Salvador
The role of courts and civil society in safeguarding women's human rights in Bangladesh
Project | Jul 2004 - Dec 2005
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, ...
Bangladesh, courts, women's rights, gender justice, human rights, law
Operationalizing a Rights-Based Approach to Health Service Delivery
Project | Dec 2013 - Dec 2015
Operationalizing a rights-based approach to health service delivery (RBA-healthdelivery) is a joint effort by CMI, The World Bank Institute ...
right to health, health system reform, right based approach, health care delivery
Litigating the Right to Health
Programme | Jan 2008 - Jan 2012
Right to health through litigation? Can court enforced health rights improve health policy?
The project investigates whether litigation can ...
Health rights, courts, health rights litigation, public interest litigation, social rights jurisprudence, health policy, health economics, medical ethics, priority setting, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, South Africa
Writing Rights: Human Rights Research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute 1984-2004
Project | Jan - Dec 2004
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. ...
Human rights
Evaluation of Danida's assistance supporting human rights and democratisation
Project | Jan 1999 - May 2000
CMI was responsible for preparing a synthesis report discussing the relevance of Danish support for ameliorating key human rights and democratisation ...
Halvdagsseminar i utviklingsøkonomi
Event | 25 Nov 2005
25. november 2005
på CMI, Fantoftvegen 38
Møterommet 1. etasje ("postmøterommet")
Program
12.15 - 13.00
Lunsj ...
Human Rights in Developing Countries. Yearbook 1997
Edited Book | Jan 1998
The tenth in a series of yearbooks, this edition contains articles on topical human rights issues as well as surveys of individual countries. ...
Complicance with economic and social human rights: Realistic evaluations and monitoring in the light of immediate obligations
Book Chapter | Jan 1992
The book chapter presents an analytical approach which contributes to a realistic framework for examining economic and social rights, even under ...
Human rights, Economic and social rights, Poverty, Aid, Global