Sue Anne Teo is a Senior Programme Officer at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. Before coming to RWI, she worked in the UN on Myanmar refugee issues.
Originally wanting to study fine arts, Sue Anne’s experience growing up as a Malaysian … Continue reading » “Staff Profile: Sue Anne Teo”
Continue readingMore TagThe Raoul Wallenberg Institute’s Nairobi Office recently completed a two-day meeting for managers from all 16 of Sierra Leone’s correctional centres, as well as regional commanders and headquarters officers.
The event aimed to follow up on action plans developed at … Continue reading » “Sierra Leone’s Correctional Centres Working to Improve Treatment of Prisoners”
Continue readingMore TagThe RWI Turkey Programme has for a long time recognized that gender often is ignored in many research proposals. This is largely due to the lack of capacity and knowledge.
Even though the Programme receives an impressive amount of high-quality … Continue reading » “Integrating Gender into Research in Turkey”
Continue readingMore TagThe Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Amman recently participated in a two-day roundtable meeting held in Tunisia and organized by both the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa and the … Continue reading » “Combating Hate Speech in the Middle East and North Africa”
Continue readingMore TagThe Raoul Wallenberg Institute has entered into a cooperation with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice.
The overall objective of the cooperation is to promote fair and efficient justice and adherence to … Continue reading » “New Cooperation Underway in West Africa to Promote Fair and Efficient Justice”
Continue readingMore TagA recent roundtable held by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund, Sweden featured two days of discussions, study, and brainstorming on the connection between anti-corruption work and human rights.
“The goal of the roundtable was to identify human rights-based opportunities … Continue reading » “Twenty-Nine Takeaways From RWI’s Roundtable on Corruption and Human Rights”
Continue readingMore TagRWI’s regional office in Amman held a high-level ceremony recently to launch a new Algerian comparative research study that aims at analyzing challenges of national laws and bringing forward applicable judicial recommendations and solutions related to the best interest of … Continue reading » “New Algerian Study on the Rights of the Child Initiated”
Continue readingMore TagThe institute has supported a core group of Cambodian justice sector lecturers with the aim of further strengthening their teaching skills since 2016. This group, which consist of both practitioners (judges, prosecutors and lawyers) and academics, will teach human rights … Continue reading » ““It is Time to Think About Human Rights Issues””
Continue readingMore TagThe UN Secretary General has appointed Morten Kjaerum, the director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Lund, Sweden, to the Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation (VFTC) in the Field of Human Rights … Continue reading » “Morten Kjaerum Appointed Board Member of UN Human Rights Fund”
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