With the incorporation of the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) into the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) United Front Work Department in 2018, religious affairs have been brought back into the direct control of the Party. While SARA has … Continue reading » “New Measures for Governing Religions in Xi’s China”
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This report combines insights from two parallel and complementary projects initiated by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The two projects apply differing methodologies, top-down … Continue reading » “Practices, Legal and Policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic from a human rights perspective – A pilot project in the state of Kerala, India”
Continue readingMore TagAbstract: The complexities of urban informality are increasingly being examined in nuanced and region specific ways. Within the post-socialist states of Central-Eastern Europe, a growing body of research is interrogating phenomena within urban environments through the lens of transition and … Continue reading » ““We have nowhere else to go” A study of urban informality within a Roma settlement in Arad, Romania”
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While the impacts of climate change can negatively affect persons in both developed and developing countries, the notion of climate change loss and damage has typically been associated with the latter. Indeed, the mandate of the Warsaw International Mechanism … Continue reading » “Loss and damage from climate change: Climate vulnerable groups in Arctic States”
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Since 2012 the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) has supported multi-disciplinary research on disability issues in China in cooperation with Wuhan University’s Public Interest and Development Law Institute (PIDLI) and the Wuhan East-Lake Institute … Continue reading » “THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND OLDER PERSONS IN A PANDEMIC: FINDINGS FROM TWO STUDIES CONDUCTED IN CHINA”
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Since the adoption of the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI) in 1990, there was an ongoing debate between Western and Muslim states regarding the compatibility of its provisions with human rights standards. The cultural divide reached … Continue reading » “OIC Declaration on Human Rights: Changing the name or a paradigm change? ”
Continue readingMore TagAbstract: In the current global economy shaped by the global supply chain model, linking business and human rights represents a core challenge to advance sustainable development and a transition to a more socially inclusive economic paradigm. In such context, the … Continue reading » “Public Procurement and Human Rights: advancing International Labour Standards at International and European Level”
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Environmental rights are a category of human rights necessarily central to both democracy and effective earth system governance (any environmental-ecological-sustainable democracy). For any democracy to remain democratic, some aspects must be beyond democracy and must not be allowed to … Continue reading » “Environmental Human Rights in Earth System Governance”
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This working paper explores a novel approach to the challenge of corporate human rights abuses in the context of globalisation and its current incorporation into European business law. The contemporary legal order has proven insufficient to address the negative … Continue reading » “THE PROSPECTS AND LIMITATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS DUE DILIGENCE LEGISLATION IN EUROPE”
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