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It is with great sadness that we inform that our former colleague, friend and long-standing librarian Habteab Tesfay passed away on Saturday 4 March.
Habteab was born in Eritrea and came to Sweden in the beginning of the 1970s. He … Continue reading » “Habteab Tesfay”
Continue readingSiranush Grigoryan and Tamar Tagagari, two talented changemakers from Armenia and Georgia, got the opportunity to meet in Lund in June 2022. Tamar and Siranush were among the participants of the Swedish Institute for Young Professionals (SAYP) ‘Perspectives on … Continue reading » “Supporting women displaced from armed conflicts to enter the labor market in Armenia and Georgia.”
Continue readingNeshan Gunasekera has recently moved to Lund in order to take up the position of Research Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute where he hopes to focus on the Human Rights aspect of Environmental Law, build partnerships with colleagues and … Continue reading » “Meet Neshan Gunasekera – Research Fellow at Raoul Wallenberg Institute”
Continue readingOn 1st March, RWI Research Fellow Ehsan Qaane participated as one of two speakers in a lecture organised by the Association of Foreign Affairs and supported by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at Café Athens … Continue reading » “International community engagement in Afghanistan, and its implications for the current situation, and for human rights, in the country”
Continue readingKlaudia Zielinska is an 18-year-old high school student from Malmö and recipient of the 2022 ‘UN Youth of the Year’ Award. Every year, this title is awarded to a young person in Sweden who has been extra committed to furthering … Continue reading » “Meet Klaudia – Recipient of the 2022 ‘UN Youth of the Year’ Award”
Continue readingOn 6th and 7th February, 40 scholars and expert practitioners gathered at RWI in Lund, Sweden, or joined online, for an Expert Roundtable on the topic of Prospects for Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Afghanistan.
The expert roundtable was … Continue reading » “Expert Roundtable – Afghanistan”
Continue readingAccording to Transparency International yearly (2022) index that was recently published, Sweden now shares the fifth place with Singapore. It is Sweden’s lowest ranking in years. Based on a number of criteria, Transparency International score and rank 180 countries across … Continue reading » “Corruption: Sweden Lags Behind”
Continue readingThe Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU Parliament, hosted a two-day seminar on lessons learned and recommendations for the future.
When the European Parliament carried out a streamed public hearing on The impact of the pandemic on fundamental … Continue reading » “EU: Human Rights Learnings in Relation to Covid-19”
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