Thirty-five percent of all Turkish applications to the European Court of Human Rights are rejected due to some procedural or other type of mistake or misunderstanding.
RWI is working to lower that percentage. A recent 2-day workshop with 15 lawyers … Continue reading » “Reducing Turkish Rejections at the European Court of Human Rights”
Humanitarian groups report that children as young as nine are risking their lives in desperate attempts to reach Europe.
Solving the increased influx of refugees is getting even more challenging since the coup in Turkey 2016 and the Turkish President … Continue reading » “The EU as a Force for Good in Human Rights”
Corruption is one of the biggest impediments globally for the realisation of human rights. In recent years, the institute has been expanding its efforts to address the relationship between corruption and human rights.
This week, the institute is participating in … Continue reading » “Corruption Impeding Realisation of Human Rights”
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute recently held a gender and law training program in Turkey. Twenty young female law students in their third and fourth years of law from fourteen faculties across Turkey participated in the course.
The students focused on … Continue reading » ““More Powerful as a Woman and a Student of Law””
Ilhami has a Masters degree in International Human Rights Law (2002) from Lund University, and a PhD (2007) from Kent University (UK). He was awarded post-doctoral grant from the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS) … Continue reading » “Ilhami Alkan Olsson”
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“The People on the Move Working Group” in Turkey, composed of independent academics, and with the support of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute Turkey Program, is … Continue reading » “Refugee Research Methodologies Workshop”
The Raoul Wallenberg Inter-Universities Fictional Constitutional Complaint Competition 2016 has been completed with success.
The Raoul Wallenberg Inter-Universities Fictional Constitutional Complaint Competition is the only competition on human rights issues among law students in Turkey. This makes it a unique … Continue reading » “Winners of the Inter-Universities Fictional Constitutional Complaint Competition”
RWI’s Director Morten Kjaerum traveled to Istanbul over the weekend to speak at Istanbul University’s International Crime and Punishment Film Festival.
The festival’s theme this year is discrimination based on race, ethnicity and religion.
In his address, Kjaerum spoke about … Continue reading » ““Discrimination Limits a Person’s Basic Freedoms in Everyday Life””
Nearly 60 students from universities all around the world gathered in Turkey recently for the third annual summer school course on human rights.
The school is a joint initiative among the Istanbul University Faculty of Law, Leiden University Law School, … Continue reading » “Students From Around the World Go to Human Rights Summer Course”
