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Nineteen teachers from various universities across China met recently in Shanghai for a workshop on how to teach about gender and human rights in their courses back home.
Whereas the first workshop in Beijing focused on the theoretical aspects of … Continue reading » “Workshop Puts Gender Rights on the Curriculum”
Continue readingA former leading Sami politician called for the creation of a truth commission in Sweden in a lecture on Friday at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute.
… Continue reading » “A Truth Commission Can Create a Shift in Public Opinion” Continue readingWe don’t want reconciliation; we don’t think it’s even possible at this stage, said Josefina
The Summer School brought together law students, members of civil society organisations and practitioners from different … Continue reading » “Still Room for Improvement for Disability Rights in Sweden”
Continue readingRWI advisors are currently undertaking a human rights training needs assessment with prisons and probation services in the East Africa Community (EAC) member states of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The assessment, which is organised by … Continue reading » “Human Rights Prison Training for East Africa”
Continue readingOlga Bezbozhna is a Programme Officer at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Jakarta. Originally from Ukraine, she lived in Sweden for five years before recently relocating to Jakarta, Indonesia, with her family.
While living in Sweden, she worked on … Continue reading » “Olga Bezbozhna: Will Human Rights Fade Into Oblivion?”
Continue readingProfessor Axel Marx, of the University of Leuven, spoke at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human rights and Humanitarian Law about the EU’s approach towards integrating human rights provisions to EU trade policy and assessed whether the current … Continue reading » “Key Takeaways on EU Trade and Human Rights”
Continue readingMostafa Sen joined RWI as a programme officer in Cambodia because he believes in the institute’s approach to impact change by targeting the next generation through the higher education institutes with human rights education and research.
Mostafa Sen has coordinated … Continue reading » “Why Mostafa Joined RWI in Cambodia”
Continue readingSeven academics met on September 8-9th in Johannesburg, South Africa for the first step in establishing a research network on migration and international law in Africa, the Middle East and Turkey, thus internationalizing the academic debate on migration and international … Continue reading » “Internationalizing the Academic Debate on Migration”
Continue readingThe RWI office in Nairobi was invited last week by the Commandant (Director) of the Prison Staff Training College (PSTC) in Kenya to, for the first time, train prison staff instructors on the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment … Continue reading » “First of a Kind Training for Kenyan Prison Staff”
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