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As we’ve reported earlier, the new Swedish National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) will be placed in Lund. This is something that we at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute is very happy about.
Our Director Morten Kjaerum has vast experience from National … Continue reading » “NHRIs: Director Morten Kjaerum on What They Do”
Continue readingReport from the Lund disability Human Rights Clinic
Today the Independent Living Institute publishes a report authored by students at the 2020 Lund Disability Human Rights Clinic at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. The Lund clinic runs as one of the … Continue reading » “RWIs Global Clinical Legal Education Work: Now also in Lund, Sweden”
Continue readingThe China Programme is pleased to announce the launch of RWI partner Made in China Journal’s project: The People’s Map of Global China.
The People’s Map of Global China is a project that tracks China’s complex and rapidly … Continue reading » “The People’s Map of Global China: The Launch of a New Perspective on Global China”
Continue readingThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights is just as important and relevant today as it was when the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed and adopted it in 1948. This was the first document in the history of the world, that … Continue reading » “Get Your Rights Illustrated by Raoul Wallenberg Institute”
Continue readingKjærum is appointed by Marija Pejčinović Burić, Secretary General of the Council of Europe. The high-level … Continue reading » “Director Morten Kjærum appointed”
Continue readingThis five-year project (2021–2025) develops the Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law to explore new ways to understand, analyze and secure the future of human rights.
The Visiting Chair is co-hosted by the Faculty of Law … Continue reading » “Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law”
Continue readingThe Raoul Wallenberg Institute are happy to present Head of our Thematic area People on the Move Dr. Matthew Scott‘s newly published book: Climate Change, Disasters and Internal Displacement in Asia and the Pacific: A Human Rights-Based Approach.
Continue readingSilas Aliki and Joakim Lundqvist – two Stockholm-based lawyers – recognised the need for lawyers with LGBTQ+ expertise and founded their own law firm, Folkets Law Firm (Folkets Juristbyrå), in 2017. Although small and somewhat newly founded, Folkets… Continue reading » “LGBTQ+ Lawyers in a Conservative Field”
Continue readingThe COVID-19 pandemic has reversed decades of progress on poverty. Over 200 million people run the risk of falling into poverty and 71 million are at risk of falling into extreme poverty. 500 million are at risk of losing their … Continue reading » “Human Rights and Poverty: Where do we go from here?”
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