Morten Kjærum

Biographic Data

ID6548529
NAMEMorten Kjærum
GIVEN NAMESMorten
FAMILY NAMEKjærum
SIGNATUREKJÆRUM M
AFFILIATIONSDanish Institute for Human Rights
ORCID0000-0002-3125-5079
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Build Forward Fairer: Covid-19, Lessons Learned

    Open AccessMorten KjærumARTICLEJournal of Human Rights Practice2023

    The article discusses the importance of adopting a human rights-based approach in addressing the lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic. The article highlights the case of a human rights-based hospital in Sweden that actively reached out to vulnerable individuals in the community during the pandemic, emphasizing how the human rights-based approach contributes to building trust and thereby realizing the right to life and health. Based on this …

  • A decisive moment: Human rights or authoritarianism? It is a choice

    Morten KjærumARTICLEGlobal Discourse2022References: 1

    The VUCA is a well-known business concept capturing that we live in an ever changing global and local landscape defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. The convergence of profound changes brought about by new technologies and global crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the NATO defeat in Afghanistan constitute the root of the VUCA world. With the outset in these two contemporary crises I will explore what sort of change …

  • Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty

    Martha F Davis, Morten Kjærum et al.BOOKResearch Handbook on Human Rights…2021

    This important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Research Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income and explores the profound ways that deprivation and distributive inequality of power and cap…

  • Covid-19 and Human Rights

    Open AccessMorten Kjærum, Martha F Davis et al.BOOKCOVID-19 and Human Rights2021

    This timely collection brings together original explorations of the COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging, global effects on human rights. The contributors argue that a human rights perspective is necessary to understand the pervasive consequences of the crisis, while focusing attention on those being left behind and providing a necessary framework for the effort to 'build back better'. Expert contributors to this volume address interconnections…

  • Human rights: Early days or coming to an end

    Open AccessMorten KjærumARTICLENetherlands Quarterly of Human…2018

    The speech addresses how human rights are being challenged and to what extent we are witnessing the end times of human rights. Neo-liberalism and populism coming from different corners converge and contribute to the erosion of human rights as well as rule of law institutions. Attempts to link human rights to one or the other economic theory contribute to lifting human rights away from their status of being universal. Human rights are not there to…

  • New Year, New Decade, New Treaties: Happy News Also for the Protection of Fundamental Rights

    Open AccessMorten KjærumARTICLENetherlands Quarterly of Human…2010

  • The Human Rights Architecture of Europe: Recommendations from the Nordic Institutes of Human Rights

    Geir Ulfstein, Martin Scheinin et al.ARTICLENordic Journal of Human Rights2008

  • Report from a Meeting of the Nordic Human Rights Institutes on Human Rights Reform in the United Nations

    Asbjørn Eide, Gudmundur Alfredsson et al.ARTICLENordic Journal of Human Rights2006

  • Retssikkerhed og sikkerhed

    Morten KjærumARTICLENordic Journal of Human Rights2001

  • Opinion Temporary Protection in Europe in the 1990s

    Morten KjærumARTICLEInternational Journal of Refugee…1994

    Journal Article OPINION Temporary Protection in Europe in the 1990s Get access MORTEN KJAERUM MORTEN KJAERUM Director The Danish Center for Human RightsCopenhagen, Denmark Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Refugee Law, Volume 6, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 444–456, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/6.3.444 Published: 01 September 1994

  • The Concept of Country of First Asylum

    Morten KjærumARTICLEInternational Journal of Refugee…1992

    The Concept of Country of First Asylum MORTEN KJAERUM MORTEN KJAERUM *Danish Centre for Human Rights, Copenhagen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Refugee Law, Volume 4, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 514–530, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/4.4.514 Published: 01 January 1992

  • Refugees and Our Role in the European House

    Arne Piel Christensen, Morten KjærumARTICLEInternational Journal of Refugee…1990

    Refugees and Our Role in the European House Arne Piel Christensen, Arne Piel Christensen *General Secretary, Danish Refugee Council. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Morten Kjaerum Morten Kjaerum †Lawyer and Head of the Asylum Department, Danish Refugee Council. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Refugee Law, Volume 2, Issue Special_Issue, 1 Sep…

  • The Information Aspects of Refugee Work Time for a Fullscale Information Strategy

    Philip Rudge, Morten KjærumARTICLERefugee Survey Quarterly1988

    Journal Article THE INFORMATION ASPECTS OF REFUGEE WORK TIME FOR A FULLSCALE INFORMATION STRATEGY Get access Philip Rudge, Philip Rudge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Morten Kjaerum Morten Kjaerum Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 7, Issue 4, December 1988, Pages 1–5, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/7.4.1 Published: 01 December 1988