My name is Manza Arthur and I’m a final year student at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Despite my limited knowledge of the international world, as a young girl growing up in Ghana I … Continue reading » ““My Interest in International Human Rights Law Has Grown Over the Years””
Continue readingIntensive Training Programme in Human Rights
RWI will offer an Intensive Training Programme on Human Rights. The course is primarily targeted at professionals who work with human rights in practice but who are in need of additional human rights education and training. The participants will be … Continue reading » “Intensive Training Programme in Human Rights”
Continue readingLearning About What it Means to Have a Career in International Human Rights Law
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute’s two summer interns from Suffolk University Law School have been getting an opportunity to learn more about what it means to have a career in international human rights law. They are about to wrap up … Continue reading » “Learning About What it Means to Have a Career in International Human Rights Law”
Continue readingTwo New Board Members Appointed
Thomas Hammarberg and Gregor Noll have been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. They will assume their positions on the board as of 1 July 2015.
“We are pleased … Continue reading » “Two New Board Members Appointed”
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“I Have a Duty to Go Back to My Region and Help My People”
Joy Bravo, who works on the Commission of Human Rights in the Philippines (CHRP), says the the issues of business, human rights and the environment is so important because it has a big impact on the most vulnerable sectors in … Continue reading » ““I Have a Duty to Go Back to My Region and Help My People””
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Chinese Researchers Look at Anti-discrimination in Employment
RWI recently supported a group of Chinese researchers to pay a visit to Stockholm on the topic of anti-discrimination in employment.
During the two and half day visit, researchers held in-depth discussions and exchanges with both government institutions and civil … Continue reading » “Chinese Researchers Look at Anti-discrimination in Employment”
Continue readingMorten Kjaerum Receives High Honour from Austria
RWI’s director Morten Kjaerum received the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria on Monday at the Austrian embassy in Copenhagen.
Kjaerum received the award for his work while heading the EU … Continue reading » “Morten Kjaerum Receives High Honour from Austria”
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Turkish Judges in Training Visit European Court of Human Rights
A group of judges in training from the Turkish Justice Academy recently went on a study visit to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
The study visit participants will work as judges at the administrative courts in Turkey … Continue reading » “Turkish Judges in Training Visit European Court of Human Rights”
Continue readingDangerous Conditions Make it Difficult to Judge, Says Iraqi Lawyer
RWI recently held a two-day meeting in Jordan with eight members of judicial institutes in Iraq, Jordan and Palestine as part of the Institute’s programme to enhance the application of human rights standards in Arab courts.
To learn more, we … Continue reading » “Dangerous Conditions Make it Difficult to Judge, Says Iraqi Lawyer”
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