Launched in June 2020, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute’s multi-programme initiative on Covid- 19 and gender equality supported research in six countries. The aim: to create fourteen unique independent research projects surrounding the gendered implications on human rights in the time … Continue reading » “A Multi-Country Research Initiative: on Covid-19, Gender and Human Rights”
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Gender Teaching for Teachers in China
A capacity building workshop on gender and human rights teaching for university teachers was recently held in Beijing. A clear majority, namely 100 % of the 22 participants, agreed that the workshop has broadened their understanding on gender and human … Continue reading » “Gender Teaching for Teachers in China”
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Invitation: Regional Blended Learning Course on Human Rights, Gender Equality, Environment and Business in the Framework of SDGs
Note: This invitation is directed to corporations in South Asia. Download full invitation here.
It is RWI’s pleasure to invite you to apply for a regional course on human rights, gender equality and environment in the framework of SDGs and … Continue reading » “Invitation: Regional Blended Learning Course on Human Rights, Gender Equality, Environment and Business in the Framework of SDGs”
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Before There Was #Metoo, There Was Anita
Marta Kolankiewicz, a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University, will sit down with RWI’s Anna Bruce after the screeningof the film Anita on Saturday night at the Swedish Human Rights Film Festival.
Anita … Continue reading » “Before There Was #Metoo, There Was Anita”
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Call for Proposals: Global Transformation Towards Gender Equality and Agenda 2030
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute together with the Network of Scholars on Gender, Sexuality and the Law (ALAS), Center For Human Rights i Pretoria and the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law, invite … Continue reading » “Call for Proposals: Global Transformation Towards Gender Equality and Agenda 2030”
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Documentary filmmaker Parsifal Reparato will travel to Lund on March 18 for the screening of his film, “Nimble Fingers,” during the Swedish Human Rights Film Festival in Lund.
Parsifal left the corporate world to pursue documentary filmmaking. … Continue reading » ““Nimble Fingers and A Slow Mind””
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Chinese Students Participated in Gender Equality Seminar
Students at the RWI supported Human Rights Master Programme at Peking University recently took part in a lecture held by Emma Melander Borg, head of Gender Equality at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute.
Under the headline “Gender Equality in … Continue reading » “Chinese Students Participated in Gender Equality Seminar”
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“Wear a Dress, Keep Clean, Keep Your Legs Together”
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute, together with its academic cooperation partners (Africa University, Great Zimbabwe University and Midlands State University) under the Zimbabwe Human Rights Capacity Development Programme 2016-2018, recently concluded a two-day workshop on human rights research … Continue reading » ““Wear a Dress, Keep Clean, Keep Your Legs Together””
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“More Powerful as a Woman and a Student of Law”
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””
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