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”
RWI will offer an Intensive Training Programme on Human Rights. The course is primarily targeted at professionals who work with human rights in practice but who are in need of additional human rights education and training. The participants will be … Continue reading » “Intensive Training Programme in Human Rights”
Irregular working hours is part of working at RWI. It is simply impossible to implement a programme of this size and complexity between 8 am and 5 pm Monday-Friday. This is partly due to the workload, but also related to … Continue reading » ““Our Goal is to Make Ourselves Unemployed””
I cleaned my desk today. Partly because it was very messy and partly because we have a new paper shredder in the office that I really enjoy using. The satisfying sound when the machine is shredding the papers, combined with … Continue reading » “Work with Academic Institutions is a Long-term Commitment”
I have to learn Khmer. Today, I did not understand the instructions at the training course for court clerks and missed a golden opportunity to impress the participants.
When I came home from work yesterday, my 5-year-old son was exited … Continue reading » “What Do Paper Airplanes and Human Rights Have in Common?”
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is offering four fellowships for academic scholars and representatives of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in South East Asia. The fellowship takes place at RWI’s head office in Lund, Sweden. … Continue reading » “Apply for these one-of-a-kind human rights fellowships today”
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”
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”
