The Connection Between Consumption, Lifestyle, Global Justice and Human Rights
How is sustainable consumption and lifestyle connected to global justice and human rights? Our Senior Researcher, Radu Mares, participiated in the grand opening of Lund Sustainability Week which was held 15-20 May as part of Lund University’s 350-year anniversary. … Continue reading » “The Connection Between Consumption, Lifestyle, Global Justice and Human Rights”
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Heading Back to Cambodia to Work With Human Rights
Two years ago, Rathana Ken left her farming village in the eastern part of Cambodia to travel to Lund, Sweden to study in the Master’s Programme in International Human Rights Law. Now she has graduated.
Two years ago, when she … Continue reading » “Heading Back to Cambodia to Work With Human Rights”
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Elisabet Fura New Chair of Raoul Wallenberg Institute
Elisabet Fura has been appointed Chairperson of the Board of Trustees at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund. She assumes the new position on 1 July.
Most recently Fura was the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman … Continue reading » “Elisabet Fura New Chair of Raoul Wallenberg Institute”
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RWI’s Research Director Awarded Drassow Prize
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, RWI’s Research Director, has been awarded the Danish Authors’ Guild’s so-called “peace prize” for his 2016 book “How do we solve the refugee crisis?” or “Hvordan løser vi flygtningekrisen?” in Danish.
Formally called the “Drassow prize” … Continue reading » “RWI’s Research Director Awarded Drassow Prize”
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Meet Us in Almedalen – Sweden’s Major Political Festival!
Almedalen Week is one of Sweden’s most important political forums and takes place every year in July in Visby on Gotland island. Our director Morten Kjaerum and our Stockholm office director Malin Oud will be in Almedalen on July 2-6 … Continue reading » “Meet Us in Almedalen – Sweden’s Major Political Festival!”
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Farewell to a Kenyan Human Rights Champion
Kenya Prisons Service Human Rights Officers have come together to mourn the loss of their friend and colleague Justus Naderia, who has died at the age of 32 after a short illness. Picture: Justus is in the middle of the … Continue reading » “Farewell to a Kenyan Human Rights Champion”
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How One Activist Struggles For Human Rights in Bahrain
In this episode of “On Human Rights,” RWI’s Leila Fall interviews Maryam al-Khawaja. She’s a Bahraini Human rights defender living in exile.
She talks about the struggles that country is facing, the goals of the activists there and how she … Continue reading » “How One Activist Struggles For Human Rights in Bahrain”
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What About Male Privilege?
Professor Nancy Dowd’s research focuses on social justice issues connected to family law, and touches also on juvenile law, constitutional law, race and gender analysis, and social change theories.
In this episode, she talks about her recent book, which … Continue reading » “What About Male Privilege?”
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High-Level Ceremony for the Launch of a New Palestinian Comparative Research Study
The Palestinian Judicial Institute, in close cooperation with the High Judicial Council, held a high-level ceremony recently to launch a new Palestinian comparative research study.
The study, titled “Fair Trial Guarantees in the Criminal Procedural Law from International Standards … Continue reading » “High-Level Ceremony for the Launch of a New Palestinian Comparative Research Study”
Continue readingNavigating Human Rights in an Unknown World
Morten Kjaerum, the director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, joins us for our latest episode of the On Human Rights Podcast. He talks about his concern for the increasingly authoritarian trends worldwide, mitigating fear and angst, how the human … Continue reading » “Navigating Human Rights in an Unknown World”
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