RWI’s office in Cambodia organised the Ten December Academy recently for the fourth year in a row. This year the Academy was back in Sihanoukville after being organised in Siem Reap last year.
The purpose of the Academy is to … Continue reading » “Celebrating Human Rights Day in Cambodia”
Continue readingThis week in Jordan the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and its partners are celebrating the outcomes of a programme in the Middle East and North Africa that has focused on increasing the exchange between Arab judicial systems to share best practices … Continue reading » “Celebrating Achievements for Judicial Cooperation in the MENA Region”
Continue readingThe First ASEAN Conference on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice recently took place in Bangkok, Thailand.
The Conference, “Enhancing crime prevention and criminal justice institutions for sustainable development of the ASEAN Community”, hosted by the Institute of Justice, … Continue reading » “First ASEAN Conference on Crime Prevention Held”
Continue readingPHNOM PENH: Gamze Rezan Sarışen, advisor for the Turkey Programme, visited the Institute’s office in Cambodia to support, and advise on a new legal clinic initiative in Cambodia.
Sarışen, who is responsible for the Institutes legal clinic programmes in … Continue reading » “Legal Clinic Cooperation Between The Institute’s Office In Cambodia And Turkey”
Continue readingAlejandro Fuentes, a senior researcher at RWI, has written a research brief, a summary of a larger research paper that he first presented at the 12th Annual European Society of International Law (ESIL) Conference on “How International Law … Continue reading » “New Research Brief: Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Land”
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Ms. Meskerem Geset Techane, a human rights expert from Ethiopia, is coming to the RWI on Thursday to discuss how human rights monitoring can be improved with the help of national institutions.
The Raoul … Continue reading » “Public Lecture: How National Human Rights Institutions Can Do More”
Continue readingThe Raoul Wallenberg Institute and Kenyan Prison Service (KPS) were awarded the International Corrections and Prison Association’s Correctional Excellence Award in the category of Management and Staff Training on Wednesday in Bucharest.
We caught up with RWI’s director of the … Continue reading » “Institute and Kenyan Prison Service Grab Correctional Excellence Award”
Continue readingHon Justice Harold Nsekela, former Judge President of the East African Court of Justice, makes a point at the RWI symposium on the importance of strengthening compliance with regional human rights decisions.
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute recently organised a two-day … Continue reading » “Closing the Implementation Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Continue readingMore than 20 Officers in Charge of Prisons and other senior managers from the Kenya Prisons Service (KPS) are currently participating in a two-week human rights and leadership training. More than 80 KPS officers have already benefited from the course, … Continue reading » “Looking at Human Rights from the Perspective of Corrections”
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