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One of the events the Institute will organize during the Swedish Forum for Human Rights next week is a panel discussion focusing on the Right to Health. We met with Visiting Professor Maria Green… Continue reading » “What is the Relationship Between Health and Human Rights?”
Continue readingMore TagThe Swedish Forum for Human Rights will take place in Gothenburg on November 9 and 10. It is the largest human rights venue in Scandinavia, and this year’s theme is racism. The Institute is one of the organizers, and will … Continue reading » “The Current Struggle of the African and Afro-descendant Diaspora”
Continue readingMore TagRWI’s Director Morten Kjaerum traveled to Istanbul over the weekend to speak at Istanbul University’s International Crime and Punishment Film Festival.
The festival’s theme this year is discrimination based on race, ethnicity and religion.
In his address, Kjaerum spoke about … Continue reading » ““Discrimination Limits a Person’s Basic Freedoms in Everyday Life””
Continue readingMore TagThe law firm Mannheimer Swartling and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute just wrapped up a week-long human rights seminar in Stockholm. The aim of the project is to support lawyers around the world who are working to strengthen the protection of … Continue reading » “Vietnamese Lawyer Talks About Protecting Human Rights”
Continue readingMore TagPhoto: RWI’s Senior Researcher Radu Mares speaking at the “Developing a Human Rights Tool Box” seminar. Joachim Lundgren Photography
The law firm Mannheimer Swartling and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute are conductinga five-day human rights seminar this week in Stockholm.
The … Continue reading » “Human Rights Tools That Impact Thousands of Lives”
Continue readingMore TagThe Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) has called for the creation of a European Asylum Agency. The group says the EU bears a heavy responsibility to come up with more workable solutions for the refugee crisis in Europe.
AHRI … Continue reading » “Human Rights Institutes Call for a European Asylum Agency”
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Just in the past several months, hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing from war have risked everything for a chance to take refuge in the EU. The humanitarian crisis unfolding here has caught EU leaders unprepared … Continue reading » “Refugees in Europe: A Crisis of Numbers, Solidarity or Borders?”
Continue readingMore TagHundreds gathered in the center of Lund on Monday to stand up for refugees. They were calling for a more humane refugee policy.
“People on the move are dying in the Mediterranean, and there are many who want to show … Continue reading » “Lund Collectively Stands Up For Refugees”
Continue readingMore TagThe Raoul Wallenberg Institute arranged a seminar on Monday on human rights in correctional services to kick off a week-long study visit by the Kenya Prison Service (KPS).
“Kenya Prisons Service has decided that the future lies in a human … Continue reading » “Kenya and Sweden Working Together for Human Rights in Prisons”
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