Film Festival: International Human Rights Day - The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

What is the relation between Human Rights and Climate Change?
Film screening followed by a joint reflective activity

With Human Rights Day coming up on December 10, we invite you to join us and watch a solemn, beautiful and eye-opening film about the effects of climate change, on human life and human rights: Luzzu.

You will also get the chance to participate in an engaging and reflective activity following the film – which will involve sharing your thoughts on the film and connecting the dots between climate change and human rights.

Global capitalism and corruption impacts not only life in our oceans, but also the quality of the lives of local fishermen and their families.

When: 9 December from 17.30 (mingle in the foyer), film at 18.00-19.30 and activity at 19:30-20:10

Where: At Kino, Kyrkogatan, Lund in relation to Human Rights Day

What: Mingle in the foyer at 17.30 with sandwiches and refreshments, film screening and activity

Get your ticket today, at Kino.

The session will be facilitated by Researcher Teresa Cappiali, Specialist in Transformative Learning and Senior Researcher and expert on Human Rights and Environment, and Dr. Matthew Scott, Head of the thematic area Human Rights and Environnement at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund will also join us.

Teresa Cappiali

Teresa Cappiali is a researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) in Lund and a Lecturer in international migration at the Graduate School of Social Science at Lund University. She holds aPhD in Political Science from the Université de Montréal, Canada. Her research areas are in the fields of international migration and immigrants’ inclusion in society, social movement studies, racism, gender-based violence, and human rights in Mediterranean Region. Moreover, she also has a projecton alternative pedagogies and human rights to solve conflicts around diversity and to promote inclusion of marginalized groups in society.

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Matthew Scott

Matthew Scott is head of the Human Rights and the Environment thematic area at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund, Sweden.

His area of expertise lies in legal and policy responses to internal and cross-border displacement in the context of disasters and climate change. In this space, he has published a monograph with Cambridge University Press entitled Climate Change, Disasters and the Refugee Convention, an edited volume with Routledge entitled Climate Change, Disasters and Internal Displacement in Asia and the Pacific: A Human Rights-Based Approach, along with a range of book chapters and academic articles on the subject. He is a member of the advisory committee of the Platform on Disaster Displacement, a member of the editorial board of the Yearbook of International Disaster Law, and a founding member of the Nordic Network on Climate Related Displacement and Mobility, and the Gothenburg, Lund, Uppsala Migration Law Network. He holds a PhD in Public International Law from Lund University, and a Masters degree in Social Anthropology of Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.