Mengchhun Kheang is one of 12 recent recipients of an RWI scholarship given to Cambodians to obtain their Master’s in International Human Rights Law in Cambodia in a programme RWI has supported the Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia (PUC) to develop. … Continue reading » “RWI Scholarship Recipient Allows Cambodians to Pursue Human Rights Law in Their Home Country”
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How Working in Human Rights is Personal for RWI Staff
Meet Dararoth Ke. Since 2014, Dararoth has assisted RWI as a programme officer in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He believes his experience growing up in a remote village in Cambodia, where people are not always taught their human rights, … Continue reading » “How Working in Human Rights is Personal for RWI Staff”
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Study Human Rights Law in Cambodia
The Master Programme in International Human Rights Law at at Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia is open for applications for the 2018-2020 track.
Since 2014, the Master Programme in International Human Rights Law offered by the Faculty of Law and Public … Continue reading » “Study Human Rights Law in Cambodia”
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A Stolen Ipad and Fair Trial Rights in Cambodia
On Thursday, 19 March at 10 pm, Maria, frustrated over her children’s and her own hunger, arrives with her old bicycle at the local grocery store, which is owned by the mayor’s cousin’s wife, Mrs. Mango. Maria breaks in through … Continue reading » “A Stolen Ipad and Fair Trial Rights in Cambodia”
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Scholarships for Cambodian Students at Master Programme in International Human Rights Law
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) is announcing scholarships for the Master Programme in International Human Rights Law (the Master Programme) at Lund University, Sweden for up to two Cambodian citizens residing in Cambodia for … Continue reading » “Scholarships for Cambodian Students at Master Programme in International Human Rights Law”
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“It is Time to Think About Human Rights Issues”
The institute has supported a core group of Cambodian justice sector lecturers with the aim of further strengthening their teaching skills since 2016. This group, which consist of both practitioners (judges, prosecutors and lawyers) and academics, will teach human rights … Continue reading » ““It is Time to Think About Human Rights Issues””
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Heading Back to Cambodia to Work With Human Rights
Two years ago, Rathana Ken left her farming village in the eastern part of Cambodia to travel to Lund, Sweden to study in the Master’s Programme in International Human Rights Law. Now she has graduated.
Two years ago, when she … Continue reading » “Heading Back to Cambodia to Work With Human Rights”
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RWI Supported Researchers Presents Paper in Manila
Two RWI supported Cambodian researchers recently presented papers at the 14th ASLI Conference in Manilla – “A uniting Force? Asian values and the Law”.
Kimsan Soy, who is the director of the Centre for the Studies of Humanitarian Law … Continue reading » “RWI Supported Researchers Presents Paper in Manila”
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First group of Students Graduate from RWI-supported Human Rights Master Programme in Cambodia
The first group of students of the Master Programme in International Human Rights Law at Pannasastra University of Cambodia (PUC) graduated on Tuesday after defending their Master theses following almost three years of hard studies.
The four students, who all … Continue reading » “First group of Students Graduate from RWI-supported Human Rights Master Programme in Cambodia”
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