The Raoul Wallenberg Institute engages in research and academic education, as well as in institutional capacity development activities such as training and advice for government agencies mainly in the field of administration of justice, national human rights institutions and academic institutions in Sweden and abroad.
Participants in the Training of Trainers programme on human rights for participants from the Middle East and North Africa
In 2011 Jesse Jackson visited the Institute to give a lecture titled Civil rights in the US today.
The fourth National Human Rights Education Meeting in Kunming organised in co-operation with Yunnan University Law School, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and the Danish Centre for Human Rights
Hosting one of the largest human rights libraries in northern Europe and engaged in various education, research and publication activities, the Institute provides a conducive environment for studies and research. The Institute combines its academic programmes with extensive international human rights capacity development programmes. This combination provides a unique platform where theory and practice can meet and interact in order to further the development and application of international human rights law.
The Institute’s activities do not include monitoring of state compliance in the human rights field or any other activities that could be interpreted to be of confrontational character. Furthermore, the Institute does not handle individual complaints regarding alleged human rights violations.