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By Jennifer Jun, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Communications
A live recording of the lecture as it was delivered by Ambassador Olof Skoog can be found on RWI’s On Human Rights podcast series via Soundcloud. The full transcript … Continue reading » “2024 Anna Lindh Lecture: Olof Skoog on “The Strategy of Human Rights””
Continue readingBy Matthew Scott, Leader of the Human Rights and the Environment Thematic Area
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) and Lund University have partnered on an innovative project, “Refugee Decision-making in First Countries of Asylum” (ReDeFi), to deepen our understanding … Continue reading » “Understanding Refugee Decision-Making: The ReDeFi Project”
Continue readingThe Raoul Wallenberg Institute, with financial support from the Embassy of Sweden in Zimbabwe supported the participation of the University of Zimbabwe Moot Court Team to compete in the All Africa International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition hosted by the … Continue reading » “University of Zimbabwe Wins the All Africa Regional Moot Court Competition on International Humanitarian Law 2024!”
Continue readingThis week (11-15 November 2024) the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) isundertaking a study visit to Kenya’s Commission on Administrative Justice (CAJ) as part of broad efforts to enhance its capacity to address maladministration and promoting administrative justice cases that … Continue reading » “Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Embarks on a Study Visit to Kenya’s Commission on Administrative Justice”
Continue readingThe Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) Harare Office, in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), successfully hosted the 2024 National International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Moot Court Competition from 8-11 October 2024. This prestigious event brought together law … Continue reading » “Moot Court Competition Zimbabwe”
Continue readingBy: Jennifer Jun, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Communications
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI)’s latest and most ambitious effort to try to limit the harms caused by armed conflicts worldwide – the International Humanitarian Law Compliance Monitoring Database (ICMD) – … Continue reading » “ICMD successfully launched at event attended by diplomatic community and key partners”
Continue readingOn this day in 1984, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute’s charter was confirmed by the Board of Trustees, marking the beginning of a journey dedicated to promoting human rights and humanitarian law across the globe. Over the past 40 years, we … Continue reading » “Celebrating 40 Years of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute!”
Continue readingBy Graciela Moreno Niño, RWI Access to Justice intern and Josh Ounsted, Head of RWI Thematic Area ‘Access to Justice’
This week sees the second 2024 session of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions Sub-Committee … Continue reading » “NHRIs in the Spotlight”
Continue readingThe Armenian branch of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) and the Human Rights Defender Office of Armenia (HRDO) are working together to enhance the country’s human rights protections in Armenia’s penitentiary system, with a … Continue reading » “Human Rights Protections in Armenia’s Penitentiary System”
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