The RWI MENA Office in Amman attended a high level seminar for the launching of the “Institutional Twinning Project among Tunisia, Spain, France and Italy” in Tunisia on February 11. The €4 million project is funded by the European Union.… Continue reading » “Big Project Launched to Reform the Tunisian Judicial Sector”
Photo: Signing Ceremony for the Memorandum of Understanding between the Constitutional Court of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI).
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute’s MENA Regional office in Amman entered … Continue reading » “Cooperation Agreement Signed with Highest Court in Jordan”
RWI Senior Researcher Alejandro Fuentes spoke at the opening of the Southern Regional Session of European Youth Parliament Sweden. “One of the major challenges today is to find the adequate balance in combating and countering terrorism while enhancing our fundamental … Continue reading » “Combating Terrorism While Enhancing Fundamental Values: Finding the Balance”
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, with the help of two authors and in close cooperation with seven judicial institutes in the region, is issuing two new books titled “Arab Jurisprudence in the Application of International … Continue reading » ““Demanding Basic Human Rights””
Simon Karunagaram has worked with human rights in Malaysia for over 15 years, and now he will spend three months in Lund doing research on protection of the victims of human trafficking. Simon is one of four fellows from Asia … Continue reading » “When you do something good, you don’t have to get permission from anyone”
RWI’s programme officer in Amman, Jordan, Eman Siam, has been busy as of late. She has created a photo slideshow to give a taste of what the Institute’s work in the Middle East and North Africa looks and feels like.… Continue reading » “A Few Weeks in the Life of Our Programme in the Middle East and North Africa”
Law students, fresh law graduates, and junior lawyers from the MENA region recently participated in a regional human rights summer course in Lebanon.
The 12-day course stems from a cooperation between RWI, Beirut Arab University’s Human Rights Centre (BAU-HRC), the … Continue reading » “In-depth Human Rights Summer Course Held in Lebanon”
The Palestinian Judicial Institute recently hosted a meeting in Ramallah, Palestine on how to integrate international human rights standards into its education and training curricula.
The meeting brought together various groups in the justice sector, including civil society groups, to … Continue reading » “How We Work With the Palestinian Judicial Institute”
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”
