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By: Moreblessing Mbire, Programme Officer

The 2025 Midlands State University Law Review (MSULR) Special Issue brings together timely and topical research on climate change, environment and human rights. This Issue is a compilation of eight research papers that address … Continue reading » “2025 Midlands State University Law Review (MSULR) Special Issue”

By: Innocent Mawire, Programme Officer

A three and half days’ workshop on Fair Trial Rights for Public Prosecutors commenced yesterday in Harare, bringing together 22 public prosecutors from National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) offices across Zimbabwe’s provinces. The workshop is … Continue reading » “Workshop on Fair Trial Rights for Public Prosecutors Kicks Off in Harare”

By: Jennifer Jun, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Communication

The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), together with Lund University, the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund, and the Association of Foreign Affairs (UPF Lund), will host … Continue reading » “EU Commissioner Hadja Lahbib to Visit RWI and Deliver the 2025 Anna Lindh Lecture”

By: Moreblessing Mbire, Programme Officer, Harare Office

On 8 October 2025, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) in collaboration with academic partners, Africa University, Great Zimbabwe University Midlands State University, University of Zimbabwe, and Zimbabwe … Continue reading » “Symposium: Exploring Sustainability in Clinical Legal Education Programmes in Zimbabwe”

By: Peacewell Makhurane, Junior Programme Officer, Harare Office

This week from 7 to 10 October 2025, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, in collaboration with the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS), is conducting a training focusing on international prison standards … Continue reading » “Training on international prison standards for Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service”

By: Jennifer Jun, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Communication

RWI’s Board of Trustees gathered in Lund this week for its autumn meeting, at a time when the principles of human rights, rule of law, and democracy are under pressure … Continue reading » “New Board Composition as RWI Confronts a Defining Moment for Human Rights”

By: Isis Sartori Reis, Tom Baxter, Björn Jerdén

A workshop in Stockholm, Sweden has explored the trade-offs of working with China on just transitions towards clean energy. “Global China and Just Transitions” was the fourth and final workshop … Continue reading » “Trade-offs: Working with China on the Energy Transition”

By: Pasca Chesach

On September 16th-18th, the Government of Kenya through the State Department for Correctional Services and Kenya Prisons Service, the Special Rapporteur on Prisons, Conditions of Detention and Policing in Africa of the African Commission on Human … Continue reading » “Advancing the Implementation of ACHPR Resolutions on Prisons and Conditions of Detention in Africa”

By: Jennifer Jun, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Communication

The Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) participated in the fifth edition of EU Days Lund, held 23–24 September. The event has become Sweden’s leading national arena for dialogue on Europe’s … Continue reading » “RWI at EU Days Lund 2025: Human Rights at the Heart of Europe’s Future”