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Ms. Meskerem Geset Techane, a human rights expert from Ethiopia, is coming to the RWI on Thursday to discuss how human rights monitoring can be improved with the help of national institutions.
The Raoul … Continue reading » “Public Lecture: How National Human Rights Institutions Can Do More”
Continue readingMore TagThe Raoul Wallenberg Institute and Kenyan Prison Service (KPS) were awarded the International Corrections and Prison Association’s Correctional Excellence Award in the category of Management and Staff Training on Wednesday in Bucharest.
We caught up with RWI’s director of the … Continue reading » “Institute and Kenyan Prison Service Grab Correctional Excellence Award”
Continue readingMore TagHon Justice Harold Nsekela, former Judge President of the East African Court of Justice, makes a point at the RWI symposium on the importance of strengthening compliance with regional human rights decisions.
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute recently organised a two-day … Continue reading » “Closing the Implementation Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Continue readingMore TagMore than 20 Officers in Charge of Prisons and other senior managers from the Kenya Prisons Service (KPS) are currently participating in a two-week human rights and leadership training. More than 80 KPS officers have already benefited from the course, … Continue reading » “Looking at Human Rights from the Perspective of Corrections”
Continue readingMore TagPhoto: Wang Luqian in the middle and Zhang Qiuxue to the right, two social workers undergoing RWI training in Beijing
Judicial social workers from across Beijing are participating in a training to look at the practice of social work from … Continue reading » “Teaching a Human Rights Based Approach to Social Workers in China”
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Staff from over 100 corrections facilities in Indonesia took part in a recently finalized two-year project aimed to improve prison management and treatment of prisoners in the country.
“The Director General of the Directorate General of Corrections (DGC) said the … Continue reading » “Improving Prison Management in Indonesia”
Continue readingMore TagThe Raoul Wallenberg Institute has officially handed over copies of the first ever East Africa Court of Justice (EACJ) Law Report to the Court’s Registrar, His Worship Mr. Yufnalis Okubo. At the ceremony was Josh Ounsted, Head of the … Continue reading » “East Africa Court of Justice Receives First-Ever Law Reports”
Continue readingMore TagThe Raoul Wallenberg Inter-Universities Fictional Constitutional Complaint Competition 2016 has been completed with success.
The Raoul Wallenberg Inter-Universities Fictional Constitutional Complaint Competition is the only competition on human rights issues among law students in Turkey. This makes it a unique … Continue reading » “Winners of the Inter-Universities Fictional Constitutional Complaint Competition”
Continue readingMore TagRWI has been carrying out human rights capacity development activities in cooperation with correctional services internationally since the mid-1990s, and has developed a distinct set of methodologies to support measureable improvements in compliance with international standards for human rights in … Continue reading » “Call for Applications: Raoul Wallenberg Institute Corrections Expert Roster”
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