Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, Norway
Contact: Christian Ranheim
In 2005, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague formally requested the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights to support its ICC Legal Tools Project. The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights responded positively, and a Co-operation Agreement between the institutions was signed in December 2005. Financial support for a new programme was provided by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the ICC Legal Tools Programme at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights was fully operational by mid-2006. It is currently staffed by three full-time lawyers and two part-time interns.
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights is responsible for the following collections:
• Basic ICC documents;
• ICC preparatory works;
• International(ised) criminal judgments;
• International(ised) criminal jurisdictions;
• National cases involving core international crimes and national jurisdictions for Sub-Saharan countries, in addition to some European and some Asian countries;
• Human rights decisions; and
• Publicists;
It is also responsible for updating the Means of Proof documents and assists the ICC with installations and training in use of the Case Matrix.
