The Raoul Wallenberg Institute welcomes PhD Camilla Ida Ravnbøl from University of Copenhagen to an open lecture on May 23rd. Ravnbøl will present the main findings from her PhD thesis “Bottle Hunters: An Ethnography of Law and Life among Homeless Roma in Copenhagen.” The Roma are part of the Copenhagen cityscape, yet barely noticed by the other residents.…
In our latest episode of “On Human Rights,” we sat down with Dr. Charles C. Jalloh. He is the Fulbright Lund Distinguished Chair in Public International Law (2018-2019) at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and in the Lund University Faculty of Law, Sweden. Dr. Charles C. Jalloh is a professor of law at Florida International University,…
Leonard Feld, PhD student at the European University Institute in Florence, is visiting RWI in Lund until July. He focuses on how European legislation nudges corporations to prevent or address negative human rights impacts of their business. We sat down with him to hear more about his research and what change he hopes to create.…
Welcome to the UPF + RWI lecture / The Rohingya Crisis – A panel with Flemming Ytzen and Tun Khin, on April 17th! Since 2012, the Rohingya minority in Myanmar experienced oppression and persecution, leading to one of the biggest refugee crises worldwide with approximately 750,000 people being forced to flee to Bangladesh, more than half…
Professor Charles C. Jalloh, a Fulbright Lund Distinguished Chair at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, lectured on the relationship between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Africa and shared insights on its core legal and political challenges. The following is a summary of the session, divided into three parts: Africa’s initial enthusiasm for the ICC, why…
