RWI, in cooperation with the Vietnamese Institute for Human Rights, recently held a national conference on human rights research and education in Hanoi, Vietnam. Our programme officer, David Eile, sat down to talk to Nguyen Thi Thanh Hai, the Deputy … Continue reading » “Looking Into the Human Rights Impacts of Hydropower Dams in Vietnam”
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Improving Human Rights Research in Vietnam
RWI, in cooperation with the Vietnamese Institute for Human Rights, recently held a national conference on human rights research and education in Hanoi, Vietnam. We talked to David Eile, Programme Officer at RWI, who was one of the organizers of … Continue reading » “Improving Human Rights Research in Vietnam”
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A multidisciplinary collaborative research project funded by the European Commission has led to the creation of a methodology that uses a nuanced approach for determining security benefits of surveillance technologies against financial costs, moral hazards and impact on fundamental rights.… Continue reading » “Surveillance Technologies: Restoring Legality and Legitimacy”
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The Winners of Our Human Rights Research Grant in Turkey…
The RWI Turkey Program annually awards grants for research projects related to human rights issues in Turkey. Each year a maximum of five researchers receive grants of up to 48,000 Swedish kronor from RWI for a six-month research period.
This … Continue reading » “The Winners of Our Human Rights Research Grant in Turkey…”
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Doreen El-Roeiy came to the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in the fall of 2014 as a Fulbright Scholar. She is conducting qualitative research on the impact of Yiddish as a national minority language of Sweden. She has a B.A. from Brandeis … Continue reading » “Who is taking cultural ownership of Yiddish in Sweden?”
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RWI brings together 17 academics in Southeast Asia for human rights workshop
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute recently hosted a research methodology and human rights workshop in Bangkok. Seventeen academics from Cambodia, Laos, Myanamar and Vietnam participated in the 5-day event.
Boualaphiane Sisouk, a PhD Candidate at Nagoya University and Lecturer at … Continue reading » “RWI brings together 17 academics in Southeast Asia for human rights workshop”
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At the intersection of commercial activities and human rights
Senior Researcher Radu Mares believes there is a great need for academic scholarship to theorise and make sense of the changing relationship between commercial activities and human rights. Radu Mares says his academic interest has always been at the intersection … Continue reading » “At the intersection of commercial activities and human rights”
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Research Initiative Southeast Asia 2015: Extended deadline for applications until 11 February
During 2015, RWI will again implement a regional research programme with the aim of strengthening research capacity in human rights at Academic Institutions in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. This will be done through practical training in research methodology, … Continue reading » “Research Initiative Southeast Asia 2015: Extended deadline for applications until 11 February”
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RWI – 2015 İnsan Hakları Araştırmaları Hibe Programı Türkçe açıklama için tıklayınız
Introduction The main goal of the RWI-Human Rights Research Grant is to enhance the human rights law education and to support human rights research capacity at the academic … Continue reading » “2015 Human Rights Research Grant Program, Turkey”
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