Börje Ljunggren has a lifelong commitment to human rights behind him. Since 2006 he has been a member of RWI’s Board of Trustees. We met with him to talk about responsibilities, international adventures, and the Chinese dream.
Ljunggren came to … Continue reading » “The Adventure Continues and Human Rights Remain Central”
Ms. Wanying Ni, Associate Professor at the College of Humanities, DongHua University in China, has joined the Institute in Lund as a Guest Scholar to do research on a concept, called a time bank, that encourage people of all ages … Continue reading » “One Way to Remove Old People’s Worries”
The institute recently sent a number of representatives to the 6th International Human Rights Education Conference in the Netherlands. RWI’s main panel discussion centred around the institute’s work throughout the world to promote human rights through education and research.
The … Continue reading » ““Human Rights Education is an Efficient Method That Leads to Change””
Last week, experts from a number of countries gathered at the institute in Lund to discuss challenges ahead and lessons learned at a seminar on good prison practice.
We sat down with two of the participants to talk about what … Continue reading » ““Human Rights is the Mantra — What Everything is Weaved Into””
Photo credits: Gender Summit’s flickr photo stream
RWI recently attended the 7th Gender Summit in Berlin, Germany.
“RWI works with gender aspects in research in cooperation with many partners, notably in China and Belarus,” says Alexandra Ronkina, Programme Officer at … Continue reading » “Scrutinzing Structural Gender Inequality in Academia”
RWI recently supported a group of Chinese researchers to pay a visit to Stockholm on the topic of anti-discrimination in employment.
During the two and half day visit, researchers held in-depth discussions and exchanges with both government institutions and civil … Continue reading » “Chinese Researchers Look at Anti-discrimination in Employment”
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””
RWI had a group of staff members attending the 13th UN Conference on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Doha in April. We took a few minutes to speak to one of them. Merethe Borge MacLeod, head of RWI’s … Continue reading » ““It’s basically about operationalising abstract human rights standards””
