Asbjørn Eide
| Asbjørn Eide | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 February 1933 Voss, Hordaland, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Fields | Law & Social Science |
| Institutions | University of Oslo |
| Spouse | Wenche Barth Eide |
Asbjørn Eide (born 11 February 1933 in Voss, raised in Eksingedalen, Vaksdal, Norway) is a Norwegian human rights scholar with base in Law and Social Science Research. He was married October 10, 1959 to Professor of nutritional physiology Wenche Barth Eide (b. 1935), and the father of Norwegian Minister of Defence (2011–12) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012-13) Espen Barth Eide.
Eide is one of Norway's foremost experts on human rights. As a researcher and specialist, he has been particularly concerned with indigenous and minority issues, and he has held important assignments in these fields both in Norway and in the United Nations system. He was the founding Director of the Norwegian Center for Human Rights at the University of Oslo, having first started (with Torkel Opsahl) the Human Rights Project at the Peace Research Institute Oslo which became the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights. From 1971 to 1975, Secretary-General of the International Peace Research Association.
In 1981 Eide was elected member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights, 1981—2003), where he has been re-elected several times as the only Nordic member, and has been responsible for developing a number of studies of this sub-committee. As a member of the Commission Eide took initiative to establish a working group of the United Nations for indigenous issues, and became its first chairman from (1982–83). This was the first official international forum where the indigenous peoples' own representatives were given the opportunity to present their requests and demands. The work has been of great importance for the further development of indigenous law.
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