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The COVID-19 pandemic has caught the world by storm stretching many health systems and exposing the gaps in the resilience of these health systems. Kenya recorded its first confirmed case on 12 March 2020 and has since recorded 126,710 … Continue reading » “Heightened marginalization of communities on the margins: A blanket approach to the Pandemic and the impact on women and girls in Kenya”
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Over the past 20 years, legal clinics from all regions in Belarus have formed a network, where socially vulnerable categories of citizens can get an access to free legal information and assistance, protection of their rights, and legal education. … Continue reading » “The Experience of Legal Clinics in Belarus”
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This study is based on surveys among students conducted at seven faculties of six universities in the Republic of Belarus, aimed to map gender stereotypes within this group. This was the second such study in the framework of a … Continue reading » “Gender Stereotypes Study (in Russian)”
Continue readingAbstract: 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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The Gender and Law Textbook was developed by RWI with and for its academic partners in Belarus between 2015 and 2020, and aims to serve as course literature for courses in gender and law established at partner faculties in … Continue reading » “Textbook: Gender and Law (RU)”
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This publication was developed by RWI and its academic partners in Belarus in the period 2010-2020, and is meant to serve as a reference and source of inspiration for institutions of higher education. It walks the reader through 10 … Continue reading » “A 10 year journey of promoting Gender Equality in and Through Academia in Belarus”
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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? ”
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