Türkçesi için tıklayınız The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) is pleased to announce its third annual Human Rights Essay Prize in Turkey. The prize will be awarded to Turkish citizens in recognition of outstanding academic scholarship in two categories: I. Masters students and research assistants who have completed their Masters [...]
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute is announcing “The Martin Alexanderson Research Scholarship for Human Rights Studies – 2013”. The Scholarship will be awarded someone planning to carry out, or who is actually carrying out, a study in the field of human rights, preferably in respect of Roma populations or of anti-Semitism, and who is well qualified [...]
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute organises meetings and conferences in Bangkok several times every year, and we are looking to find a hotel to work with throughout the coming twelve months. We are therefore soliciting tenders suitable hotels in Bangkok. Our meetings usually gather 20-35 persons a time, and last between three to ten days. We [...]
Fellowship Through international development projects and through its various research and training initiatives RWI strives to be a meeting point for theory and practice in the implementation of human rights. To further support these efforts RWI is offering an up to three month long training Fellowship targeting representatives of NHRIs in South and Southeast Asia [...]
At the end of 2012, Raoul Wallenberg Institute signed a four year capacity development project with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency focusing on developing the capacity of the newly established Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (‘MNHRC’). The first activity under the project is a training workshop on Business and Human Rights which was held [...]
In cooperation with its partner, the Vietnamese Institute for Human Rights, the Institute has organized two training workshops on International Human Rights Law and the Role and Functions of National Human Rights Institutions. The workshops was held in Hanoi, Vietnam, from 27 January until 2 February 2013. The workshops are the first activities of the Institute’s human [...]
As part of the Regional Programme in Asia the Insitute organised a Blended learning Course on the Equal Status and Human Rights of Women in South East Asia for Academia and NHRIs in Southeast Asia. The course was held for the second year in a row, between May and December 2012. The course has aimed to [...]
Radu Mares, who has been with the Institute since 2000 has been promoted by the Law Faculty in Lund to become Associate Professor (Docent). Radu is specialised in the area of business and human rights. His work focuses on ways to strengthen the protection of human rights and good governance in the Global South. Mares has [...]
The institute organised a regional meeting in Amman, 21-22 November, on common judicial standards and judicial cooperation in the MENA-region. The Ambassador of Sweden, Charlotta Sparre, attended the meeting and she emphasised that shared knowledge and experiences is important in further enhancing the respect for human rights and in developing best practices. “International, as well [...]