The Raoul Wallenberg Institute with its collaboration partner the Association of Foreign Affairs (UPF) are proud to announce an evening with Swedish UN-Ambassador Olof Skoog. Mr Skoog will give a presentation on “Sweden in the Security Council – does … Continue reading » “UPF and RWI Lecture: Sweden in the Security Council – Does it Matter?”
RWI organized a study visit for judges and key staff from two important regional courts in East and West Africa last week.
The purpose was to launch the new cooperation between the Institute and the East African Court of Justice… Continue reading » “Two Regional African Courts Working with Human Rights Meet in Sweden”
Within a few months, Sweden will change national catalog from the current Libris to a new catalog, named LibrisXL or nya Libris.
As end-users you will probably not see so much difference in the beginning, but for the Swedish … Continue reading » “Sweden to Get State-Of-The-Art Library Catalog”
In our latest episode of “On Human Rights,” we feature a live recording from our recent commemoration of Raoul Wallenberg here in Lund. And as part of that commemoration, we invited two women from a small town in southern Sweden … Continue reading » “Asylum Seekers, Volunteers and Inclusion in Sweden: A Discussion”
Almedalen Week is one of Sweden’s most important political forums and takes place every year in July in Visby on Gotland island. Our director Morten Kjaerum and our Stockholm office director Malin Oud will be in Almedalen on July 2-6 … Continue reading » “Meet Us in Almedalen – Sweden’s Major Political Festival!”
A delegation of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities from the Council of Europe is visiting Sweden this week as part of its work in the monitoring of the implementation of this convention.… Continue reading » “Council of Europe Committee for the Protection of National Minorities Visiting Sweden”
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The Lund City municipal council voted today to start a cooperation with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law to bring the municipality one step closer to becoming Sweden’s first human … Continue reading » “Lund Can Become Sweden’s First Human Rights City”
On June 24, 2016, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights released its report on Sweden’s compliance with its obligations under the UN Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In accordance with the treaty provisions, the Swedish … Continue reading » “Sweden and the UN’s Report on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”
