On 3-4 October, 2019, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute hosted an international workshop in Lund* focused on the intersection between international humanitarian law (IHL), human rights law as it applies to the protection of persons with disabilities during armed conflicts.
Dr. Claudia Ituarte-Lima an international public lawyer and scholar with over … Continue reading » “Claudia Ituarte-Lima”
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 … Continue reading » “UPF & RWI Lecture / The Rohingya Crisis”
Andrea’s research interests focus on environmental change and territorial transformations in rural areas of the Global South. Her fields of studies in environmental and development geography brought her attention to the conflictive dynamics between economic globalization, internal armed conflicts, unequal … Continue reading » “Maria Andrea Nardi”
Blog post by Behnam Nofar, intern at the Communications Department at RWI
I was introduced to an available position as a communications intern at RWI when I attended a UPF Networking Event some time ago. That was the start of … Continue reading » “The Calm Before the Storm”
Amalia Sofia is a visiting researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. She works as a PhD student and researcher at the Graduate Institute of Public Administration at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
She is currently writing the parts of … Continue reading » “One-On-One With a PhD Researcher”
When I started looking into interning at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, I was immediately struck by the story of Raoul Wallenberg, after whom the Institute is named. His story is one that contrasts the horrific accounts of the Holocaust in … Continue reading » “The Raoul Wallenberg Legacy Today”
In our latest episode of “On Human Rights,” we interview Nick Bryer, the head of inequality campaigns at Oxfam, about their latest report on inequality.
(Image taken from cover of Oxfam report.)
The report, “Reward Work, Not Wealth… Continue reading » ““Tackling Equality Is Good For Everyone””
