The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights ( no, Norsk senter for menneskerettigheter; abbreviated ''SMR'' in Norwegian and ''NCHR'' in English) is a multidisciplinary research centre at the
University of Oslo Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law ( no, Det juridiske fakultet) of the University of Oslo is Norway's oldest law faculty, established in 1811 as one of the four original faculties of The Royal Frederick University (renamed the University of Oslo in 1939) ...
. From 2001 to 2015 it was also the
ICC (
UN) accredited Norwegian
national human rights institution
A national human rights institution (NHRI) is an independent state-based institution with the responsibility to broadly protect and promote human rights in a given country. The growth of such bodies has been encouraged by the Office of the United ...
.
Directors
* 1987–1998:
Asbjørn Eide
Asbjørn Eide (born 11 February 1933) is a Norwegian human rights scholar with base in Law and Social Science Research. He was married October 10, 1959, to Professor of nutritional physiology Wenche Barth Eide
Wenche Barth Eide (born 3 January 1 ...
* 1998–2003:
Nils Butenschøn
* 2004–2007:
Geir Ulfstein
* 2008:
Mads Andenæs
* 2009–2014:
Nils Butenschøn
* 2014–2017
Inga Bostad
* 2018–
Ragnhild Hennum
Ragnhild Helene Hennum (born 11 June 1967) is a Norwegian jurist, academic administrator and women's rights leader. She is Professor of Public Law at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law and Director of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. Henn ...
References
External links
Official website
National human rights institutions
University of Oslo
Human rights organisations based in Norway
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