Outreach and Access
We have facilitated multiple opportunities for hundreds of teachers, researchers, managers, students and librarians to access networks and human rights education opportunities within Belarus as well as within Europe at large. We have also introduced new ways … Continue reading » “Outreach and Access”
This year Gerard Quinn, our affiliated Professor and the previous Raoul Wallenberg Chair of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, was appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of … Continue reading » “Year in Review 2020: Meet our People”
Human rights education and training are key in contributing to the promotion, protection and effective realisation of all human rights. It all starts with learning. For human rights to be implemented as a practice in day-to-day life, individuals need to … Continue reading » “Year in Review 2020: Human Rights Education”
Clinical Legal Education (CLE) is a legal teaching method that uses practical-oriented, studentcentred and problem-based interactive learning methods. This includes, but is not limited to, the practical work of students on real cases and social issues supervised by academics and … Continue reading » “RWI’s Take on Clinical Legal Education”
During two days in September 2020, in relation to the United Nation’s International Day of Democracy, The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sida, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law as well as a number of other … Continue reading » “Shrinking Civic Space: The Role of Civil Society Organisations”
Launched in June 2020, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute’s multi-programme initiative on Covid- 19 and gender equality supported research in six countries. The aim: to create fourteen unique independent research projects surrounding the gendered implications on human rights in the time … Continue reading » “A Multi-Country Research Initiative: on Covid-19, Gender and Human Rights”
