2014-prosjektet: Menneskerettigheter og nasjonal rett (avsluttet)

• Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt (2014). Frihet med rettigheter. I Gullbekk, Svein Harald (Red.), Ja, vi elsker frihet. Dreyer Forlag A/S. ISSN 9788282650939. s. 238–245. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt & Semb, Anne Julie (2013). Who Owns the Land? Norway, the Sami and the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention. International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. ISSN 1385-4879. s. 517–550. doi: 10.1163/15718115-02004002. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In 1986, the International Labour Organization (ILO) started a process aimed at revising its 1957 Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention (C107). This process was completed in 1989 with the adoption of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (C169). Simultaneously, national legal and political processes in many Western states addressed the rights of their own indigenous populations. These states voted in favour of C169, but only Norway chose to ratify it – indeed, as the first country in the world, in June 1990. This article details the internal political processes within the Norwegian government, to shed light on the significance of the domestic situation in Norway for its support for C169. We find that a low degree of perceived need for domestic changes may enable states to take a leading role in creating new human rights conventions. Furthermore, the participation of government officials in international horizontal and vertical policy networks may shape the policies of their ministries and thereby those of the state.

• Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt (2012). How Constitutional Concerns Framed the US Contribution to the International Human Rights Regime From Its Inception, 1947–53. International History Review. ISSN 0707-5332. 34(4), s. 887–909. doi: 10.1080/07075332.2012.737348. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The United States has been reluctant to agree to binding international human rights instruments ever since the very first meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1947. This article explores structural causes for that reluctance. Internal government papers show that US government officers worried that a human rights treaty might expand federal jurisdiction at the expense of the jurisdiction of the United States' constituent states and could provide an opening for judicial activism by the courts. These concerns made domestic political sensitivities more acute and raised principled questions about the desirability of pushing domestic reforms through international law-making. US representatives made repeated efforts to ensure that an international bill of rights was drafted as an aspirational declaration rather than a legally binding treaty. They also proposed clauses designed to delay or limit the domestic effects of any agreement, while reassuring the US Senate that domestic power balances would not be disturbed. Constitutional concerns thus framed the United States' contribution to the creation of an international human rights system from the very beginning. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Africa Review on 26 Nov 2012, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/07075332.2012.737348.

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• Semb, Anne Julie (2014). Samepolitikkens globale innramming. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt (2014). Thinking Locally - Acting Globally? How International Organizations Redefined the Issue of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the High North. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Semb, Anne Julie (2014). Utviklingen av samenes borgerrettigheter. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• NRK, tv & Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt (2014). Samtale om menneskerettigheter. [TV]. NRK. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• NRK, tv & Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt (2014). Menneskerettigheter fra den amerikanske uavhengighetserklæringen i 1776 til den norske grunnloven i 2014. [TV]. NRK. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt (2014). Internasjonale menneskerettigheter, Grunnloven og samene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt (2014). Debatt: Grunnlovsdilemmaer i dag. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt (2013). Urfolks rettigheter. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt (2013). Who Owns the Land: the ILO and the rights of the Sami People to land in Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt & Semb, Anne Julie (2013). Who owns the land? Norges ratifikasjon av ILO konvensjon 169. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Semb, Anne Julie (2013). International Law and domestic political change: Norway and the ILO Convention 169. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt (2013). Konstitusjoner og menneskerettigheter: Norge og USA fra 1940 til 2014. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt & Semb, Anne Julie (2013). Who owns the land? Norway, the Sami and the ILO convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt (2013). Who Owns the Land? The ILO and the rights of indigenous populations to land in the High North. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Vik, Hanne Hagtvedt & Semb, Anne Julie (2012). The Troublesome Question of Land Rights: Norway and the ILO Conventions on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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