Articles by theme: Human Rights and Democracy

The organisation Scholars at Risk promotes academic freedom and helps persecuted scholars.

Girls in Northern Uganda have lost their childhood as soldiers in the Lord’s Resistance Army.

Indigenous people and democracy

Editorial by Torgeir Norling.

Foreign students learn more about gender equality

Impatient university students in Sudan

An interview with Sadik al-Azm

Malawian democracy

Profile of Surayud Chulanont

From Imprisonment to the Nobel Peace Prize

A regionally based Master’s degree in human rights and democratisation has been established in the Asian Pacific region.

Ole Henrik Magga has spent the last 40 years advocating the rights of indigenous people. Now the professor of linguistics returns to his books.

Corporate social responsibility has been adopted as an approach to international development.1 But who does it benefit, how and why? Does CSR have the potential to redefine the meaning of good business practice as meeting the needs of poor and marginalised groups? Or is there a danger that by b...

Nic Dunlop in the Cambodian Tribunal

B'Tselem's work for human rights

Fighting Repression with Education

Trafficking in Serbia

Academic essay by David Scott Mathieson

Women's Worlds 2005 in Korea

Balkan NGOs and democracy

The media and education in Zimbabwe

Research cooperation resulted in first book on the nation's government and politics.

Presentation of organisation

Ecuador suggests protecting parts of the Yasuní in the Amazon Basin from oil extraction, and wants the rest of the world to shoulder some of the cost.

An academic imprisoned and tortured in the Congo now teaches at university in the USA.

“The challenges facing indigenous peoples are universal. This cooperation will help to develop a clearer international perspective on the subject.”

Testimonies of good deeds in Bosnia

“Whoever beats, kidnaps or kills a journalist can do it with total impunity,” says Rafto prize winner Malahat Nasibova.

Peace prize to Colombian students

Sri Lankan academics exmine the cease-fire

The Ainu are not recognised as indigenous and experience discrimination in Japanese society.

Traumatized children in Palestine

“The sentence was a great shock. We never imagined that the judge would make such a decision,” says Vincent Brossel, head of the Asia division of Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF).

Ecuador’s proposition is interesting because it addresses a question of international concern, according to María Guzman-Gallegos.

New research initiative in Sudan

Academic essay on the reasons why oil has not brought wealth to Nigeria's people.

ONLINE ONLY: Academics and professionals seem to be a prime target for militias in Iraq.

Teachers and students targeted in Southern Thailand

Indonesian democracy

Tough conditions for researchers in Palestine

Can international cooperation make an impact?

Sex and gender in Ethiopia

Can a military coup be justified?

Lack of ethical aspect in development work and research

Negative aspects of education

As a boy, Bangladeshi PhD-student Hafizur Rahman could not bear to witness friends dropping out of school due to poverty. Today he teaches children on their own terms.

About understanding the Burmese reality

An Iranian academic seeks freedom from an oppressive regime.

The Russian tundra is being destroyed by oil companies. Norwegian researchers cooperate with the indigenous Nenets people to document the destruction.

Editorial by Teresa Grøtan

Interview with Chancellor Bethwell A. Ogot on how the disputed elections affected Kenya’s university environment.

A new research report states that as long as indigenous people in Alaska, Russia, Norway and Canada are included in decision making, they are not against oil extraction in the Arctic.

Editorial by Torgeir Norling

Even though the Sami and the San have a lot in common, their worlds are totally different.