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What Are Human Rights?
Learn about human rights and humanitarian law through our video and experts
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Human Rights and Poverty: Where Do We Go from Here?
RWI recently hosted a webinar with an expert panel on poverty and human rights. Learn about it here.
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Book-launch!
Editor and Senior Researcher Dr. Matthew Scott and his team recently released a new book; on internal climate displacement in relation to a human rights based approach.
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Combining Human Rights Research and Direct Engagement Worldwide
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Swedish Human Rights Film Festival 2021
Watch movies on current human rights issues and discuss together with international experts. More information coming soon.
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Human Rights Library
to facilitate research and to disseminate knowledge of human rights by providing access to up-to-date and relevant information and literature within the field of human rights and humanitarian law.
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Our Funding Partners
We work closely with our dedicated funding partners who help make our work a reality.
The latest news and articles from The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
What we do
Human Rights Research & Analysis
We provide cutting edge and policy-oriented research and analysis to see and understand core human rights issues.
Direct Engagement
We engage directly in the implementation of human rights together with our partners around the world to improve the practical application of human rights.
Human Rights Education
We educate and equip decision-makers with the tools they need to address the major human rights challenges of today and tomorrow.
Human Rights Forums
We bring together policy-makers, experts and civil society to engage in solution-oriented dialogue to advance human rights. Together we bring about change.
Who we are
We combine evidence-based human rights research with direct engagement in close collaboration with our partners to bring about human rights change for all.
We are a research and academic institution with offices, programmes, and convening power covering 40 countries.
Through these combined aspects RWI has a status comparable to relatively few other institutions globally.
The institute is named after Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews and other people at risk in Hungary at the end of World War II.
What we do
Human Rights Research & Analysis
We provide cutting edge and policy-oriented research and analysis to see and understand core human rights issues.
Direct Engagement
We engage directly in the implementation of human rights together with our partners around the world to improve the practical application of human rights.
Human Rights Education
We educate and equip decision-makers with the tools they need to address the major human rights challenges of today and tomorrow.
Human Rights Forums
We bring together policy-makers, experts and civil society to engage in solution-oriented dialogue to advance human rights. Together we bring about change.
Our focus areas
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People on the Move
Since the founding of the Institute, refugee law has been an area in focus in research and education.
We work to enhance the rights and protection of the millions of refugees and migrants at risk.
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Inclusive Societies
We work to ensure that societies are open and inclusive to all.
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Fair and Efficient Justice
This is an important ongoing process, in which partner countries, partner institutions and methods will be assessed regularly.
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Economic Globalisation and Human Rights
There is a need for integrated solutions and collective action that create synergies between human rights and environmental sustainability.
Our results
35
Years
...that we've advanced the field of human rights and humanitarian law with innovative and policy-oriented research.
14k
Individuals
...who've improved their capacity to promote, protect, and fulfill human rights in our master programs and training....
70
Institutions
...in the justice sector with whom we've worked to strengthen the delivery of and access to justice.
60
Countries
...in which we've convened actors since 1984 to contribute to developing unique solutions to human rights challenges.
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