The Raoul Wallenberg Institute and Brill have published a new book, “Ending War Crimes and Chasing the War Criminals,” written by Jonathan Power. (Students and staff at Lund University can purchase the book for 35 euro by writing … Continue reading » “Ending War Crimes, Chasing the War Criminals”
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RWI Researcher Cited in UN Report “Unlawful Death of Refugees and Migrants”
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute’s Research Director Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen‘s research contributed to a recently published report from the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
The UN report calls on states to address … Continue reading » “RWI Researcher Cited in UN Report “Unlawful Death of Refugees and Migrants””
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New Algerian Study on the Rights of the Child Initiated
RWI’s regional office in Amman held a high-level ceremony recently to launch a new Algerian comparative research study that aims at analyzing challenges of national laws and bringing forward applicable judicial recommendations and solutions related to the best interest of … Continue reading » “New Algerian Study on the Rights of the Child Initiated”
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“Whatever [the detainees] might have done, they truly deserve a world without torture and with humane conditions of detention”. Manfred Nowak
After six years as UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak decided to summarize his impressions into a book: … Continue reading » “Lecture: Torture – An Expert’s Confrontation with an Everyday Evil””
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“It is Time to Think About Human Rights Issues”
The institute has supported a core group of Cambodian justice sector lecturers with the aim of further strengthening their teaching skills since 2016. This group, which consist of both practitioners (judges, prosecutors and lawyers) and academics, will teach human rights … Continue reading » ““It is Time to Think About Human Rights Issues””
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New Working Paper Explores Still-In-Process Global Agreement on Migration
In September of 2016, in response to the large movements of refugees and migrants around the world, the UN General Assembly held its first ever summit dedicated to this topic.
The outcome was the New York Declaration for Refugees and … Continue reading » “New Working Paper Explores Still-In-Process Global Agreement on Migration”
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Humanitarian groups report that children as young as nine are risking their lives in desperate attempts to reach Europe.
Solving the increased influx of refugees is getting even more challenging since the coup in Turkey 2016 and the Turkish President … Continue reading » “The EU as a Force for Good in Human Rights”
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What Do Toxics Have To Do With Your Human Rights?
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and hazardous substances and wastes, Baskut Tuncak, joins us for our latest episode of “On Human Rights.”
“Toxic pollution is quite possibly, very likely, the leading cause of premature preventive death in … Continue reading » “What Do Toxics Have To Do With Your Human Rights?”
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Children are the victims of some of the most devastating examples of state-sanctioned and private human rights abuses.
In increasing numbers, they are trying to find international protection and are forced to navigate complex administrative and legal processes that fail … Continue reading » “Book Launch: The Child in International Refugee Law”
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