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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
A group of leading human rights experts recently launched an initiative at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund to radically change the way human rights are monitored.
Under all human rights indices there are … Continue reading » “Changing the Way Human Rights are Monitored”
Ms. Navoschik was a Guest Researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in early 2014, when she conducted research in the area of the published article. The Article analyses the use of human rights arguments as foreign policy tool and part … Continue reading » “Human Rights Review in Belarusian-Swedish Relations”
Mingalabar!
That’s ‘hello’ in Burmese!
I’ve been here in Yangon for the past four months and even though the Raoul Wallenberg Institute does not have an office set up here as such, I sit twice a week at the office … Continue reading » ““I Sit Twice a Week at the Office of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission””
I had been to Phnom Penh many times before, but it was something different with the city when I saw it through the thin clouds flying in exactly two years ago (27 May 2013). I noticed so many more details. … Continue reading » “When We Established a Presence in Cambodia”
