The Covid-19 vaccine is the key to renewing the art of the handshake, to listening to live music, to travel, and not least, getting millions of people back to earning an income.
The development of effective vaccines has been a… Continue reading » “Covid-19 Vaccines for the Few: How to Ensure the Right to Health for All?”Abstract:
For the first time in human history, people are collectively modifying the Earth’s environment and ecosystems on a global scale. Some scholars suggest the world is entering a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which Earth systems are moving … Continue reading » “Prosperous and green in the Anthropocene: The human right to a healthy environment in Southeast Asia”
Covid-19 has stalled the progress of UN talks about the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). But there are hopes China will display leadership when it hosts a major CBD conference in Kunming, writes Kong Lingyu.
The coronavirus showed the … Continue reading » “Can China Take the Lead in the UN Biodiversity Process?”
Finding common ground to act globally on biodiversity requires legitimacy and trust, write Sam Geall and Malin Oud, introducing the workshop and linked series of articles on the website.
… Continue reading » “The Road to Kunming, and Why It Matters”“The loss of biodiversity and the degradation of the ecosystem
Gerard Quinn has read Are You With Me – Kevin Boyle and the Rise of the Human Rights Movement by Mike Chinoy (Lilliput Press, 339 pp. 2020). In this blog post Quinn portrays Boyle’s fight for human rights for all.… Continue reading » “Nationalism, Human Rights & Democracy – a life”
The post considers the impact … Continue reading » “COVID-19: Human Rights-Based Reflections on Displacement and Disease”
This week RWI sat down with Zuzana Zalanova, to talk about how she came to work with human rights, conditionality for democratization and how she stays motivated when working with them. Zalanova is a Programme Officer at the Raoul … Continue reading » “Zuzana Zalanova: A Generation that Respects Human Rights”
Olga 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?”
The first inaugural Raoul Wallenberg Address delivered by Dr Helen Durham AO, Director of International Law and Policy of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Dr Helen Durham AO argued in a recent speech in Stockholm that history … Continue reading » ““The Real Power of Hope: That It Has a Contagion Effect””
