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Fafo news archive
News from the Fafo frontpage
September 2006
 Release
of a major Living Conditions Survey on Western China
27.09.2006
In Beijing today, Fafo, represented by research director Jon Pedersen
(pictured) and researcher Kristin Dalen, released the results of
a major Living Conditions Survey on Western China. The Survey was
done in cooperation with our Chinese partners, the National Research
Center for Science and Technology (NRCSTD), led by Wang Fenyu. The
meeting, held in the Great Hall of the People, was opened by the
Norwegian Development Minister, Erik Solheim, and the Chinese Vice
Minister for Knowledge and Technology, Shang Yong, and was also
attended by the Vice Governor for Gansu province, Li Ying, and the
Vice President of Nankai University. The Living Conditions Survey
encompassed 44,000 households spread among 2,772 communities in
11 provinces in Western China. Presented at the meeting was the
tabulation report of the survey, accompanied by a socioeconomic
atlas of Western China. 
Read the material here (in English): Life
in Western China, og: Monitoring
Social and Economic Development of the Western Regions (Medow)
In the Press: Western countryside witness population outflow, China News
28 Sep. Promising future for west despite economic woes, China Daily
4 Oct. A third of households in W China cannot afford middle school fees,
China View 27 Sep. Poverty Linked to Low Education for Western Chinese Women,
China Through a Lens 20 Sep. |
 Operations
under pressure
27.09.2006
At a conference held by the Educational Fund for Graphic Arts, Fafo
researchers Håvard Lismoen and Espen Løken presented
a report on the challenges faced by the graphic arts industry, including
the industry's economic situation, competitive landscape, overall
outlook, and competence needs.
Read more here (in Norwegian) |
 New
Fafo-paper on homelessness
25.09.2006
The 7th and 8th of September 2006 Norway hosted a Peer Review on
the Norwegian Strategy to prevent and combat homelessness. The Peer
Review was one of the European Commission’s Peer Reviews within
Social Inclusion Policies under the Programme Peer Review and Assessment
in Social Inclusion. This paper is the Norwegian host report to
the Peer Review.
Download the paper from here |
 New
Fafo-report: The new state
20.09.2006
At a Fafo seminar 20 September the researhcers Espen Løken
(pictured), Sissel Trygstad and Thomas Lorentzen presented a new
report about consequences of the restructuring of the government.
Read more and download from
here (in Norwegian) |
 New
publication: The Nordic Labour Market two years after the EU enlargement:
Mobility, effects and challenges
18.09.2006
The report analyses trends in the Nordic labour markets the two
first years after the EU enlargement, and points to some central
challenges for the Nordic countries in the open European labour
market. The report is prepared for the Nordic Council of Ministers
by Fafo research directors Jon Erik Dølvik and Line Eldring
(pictured).
Find
an English version of the paper here |
Fafo's Forum on the EU enlargement seminar
08.09.2006
At this seminar 26 September we will hear about Norwegian and Swedish
experiences two years after the EU enlargement. The seminar will
be conducted in Norwegian.
Find more information
here |
 New
Fafo-report on the Norwegian aluminium industry
13.09.2006
At a breakfast seminar today Fafo presented a new report about the
potential of the Norwegian aluminium industry.
More about seminar (in
Norwegian) |
 Fafo-brunch:
The new state
13.09.2006
At Wednesday 20 September kl. 9-11.
Read more and register here |
 Internal
training or university college education for prison service
11.09.2006
New Fafo-paper on internal training or university college education
for prison service, and what the consequences are for the recruitment
of prison and probation staff.
Read more here (in
Norwegian) |
Fafo breakfast seminar: The future of the aluminium industry
07.09.2006
Fafo presents a new report about the potential of the Norwegian
aluminium industry at a breakfast seminar on 13 September. The seminar
will be conducted in Norwegian.
More information |
 Fafo
and Film at Parkteateret
“Privatization of War” – Fafo and Oslo Dokumentarkino
presents one film and two reports on September 11, at Parkteateret,
Oslo.
05.09.2006
European launch of the award winning documentary “Shadow
Company” and launch of the new Fafo-reports “Market Forces”
and ”Armed Services” (see below). Presentations and comments
from the Director of Shadow Company and Fafo researchers. Program
starts 17.30.
Read more here |
 New
Fafo report: Commerce, Crime and Conflict
04.09.2006
The report Commerce, Crime and Conflict. Legal Remedies for Private
Sector Liability for Grave Breaches of International Law, will
be launched on Wednesday 6 September at the Centre for Humanitarian
Dialogue, in the presence of the Special Representative of the UN
Secretary General on Business and Human Rights, Prof. John Ruggie.
This report confirms that businesses can be held accountable for
grave human rights abuses, such as genocide, war crimes and torture
as well as other crimes against humanity. Based on the surveys of
sixteen national legal systems, it maps ways in which international
criminal and humanitarian law has become more widely applicable
to business entities than previously thought. The surveys, sponsored
by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada,
provide a summary of how laws might apply in each of the 16 countries:
Australia, Argentina, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia,
Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Ukraine, the
United Kingdom and the United States. The launch will be attended
by the participating lawyers from a number of these countries.
Find the report here
Read more about Fafo's previous
research |
 New
Fafo report: Market Forces
1.09.2006
Private military companies (PMCs) occupy a prominent place in today's
battlefields. In the first of two new Fafo reports on PMCs, Dr.
Joanna Spear analyses the political economy of these companies,
and examines the various challenges presented by the privatisation
of military activity.
Read more
The reports will be publicly launched in conjunction with the Norwegian
premiere of the documentary Shadow Company, as part of Oslo Dokumentarkino's
fall programme. The film will be shown on Monday, September 11,
and Fafo researchers will speak on a discussion panel after the
screening.
More information here |
 New
Fafo report: Armed Services
1.09.2006
In Armed Services, the second of Fafo's new reports on private military
companies, Fafo researcher Kathleen Jennings examines various sources
of constraint on the private military industry, and how policymakers
and legislators can build on these constraints in establishing effective
regulatory regimes. She argues that the tools for regulation exist,
but have yet to be applied in a stringent and consistent manner.
Read more
The reports will be publicly launched in conjunction with the Norwegian
premiere of the documentary Shadow Company, as part of Oslo Dokumentarkino's
fall programme. The film will be shown on Monday, September 11,
and Fafo researchers will speak on a discussion panel after the
screening.
More information here |
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