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RWI combines multidisciplinary research with education, training, support, and outreach to contribute to a wider understanding of, and respect for, #humanrights and international humanitarian law #IHL. Learn more at www.rwi.lu.se.
#Opportunity #ProgrammeOfficer
RWI is excited to announce an opportunity for a 12-month assignment as a full-time Programme Officer (Ukraine Programme) to join our office in Lund, Sweden.
📌 Last day to apply: 15 January 2026
👉 More information can be found here:
📘New publication alert
RWI Affiliated Scholars Morten Kjaerum and Martha Davis, together with Savitri Bisnath, are co-editors of the newly released Routledge book entitled Human Rights Economies and Subnational Governance. 👉 Read more:
For RWI, 2025 was a year of collaboration, commitment, and impact.
We'd like to extend our sincere gratitude to our partners, funders, colleagues, and collaborators whose dedication and trust have been essential.
Season's greetings from all of us at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute!
🇮🇪 Ireland Backs Further Development of #ICMD
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute is delighted to announce that the Government of Ireland is supporting the continued development of RWI's ICMD project.
🔗 Read the announcement: rwi.lu.se/news/rwi-wel...
🔗 Learn more about ICMD: icmd.se
🚀 “The European Green Deal and EU–Türkiye Trade: Corporate Sustainability Regulations and Human Rights Impacts.” RWI was delighted to gather partners and key stakeholders in Ankara, Türkiye for the official launch of our pilot initiative on Business & Human Rights.
🔗 Read more: lnkd.in/dqpg7Myw
In his 2025 #InternationalHumanRightsDay op-ed, RWI Executive Director Peter Lundberg reflects on how organisations like ours — together with our partners — must help sustain progress when global human rights institutions are stretched.
🔗 Read more: rwi.lu.se/blog/reflect...
🌍 RWI will participate in Sweden’s largest human rights forum, Mänskliga Rättighetsdagarna! Our experts Peter Lundberg (RWI’s Executive Director) & Claudia Ituarte-Lima (RWI’s thematic lead on Human Rights and the Environment) will contribute to key events.
Check the full schedule: buff.ly/PhrKn4m
At the 46th Ordinary Session of the ACERWC, Lesotho held under the theme "Reflecting, renewing, and recommitting" RWI was proud to engage in a series of high-impact events focused on strengthening accountability & accelerating action for children’s rights across Africa.
Read more: buff.ly/DdLY7BH
After returning from COP30 in Belém, RWI's Senior Researcher on Human Rights & the Environment Claudia Ituarte-Lima has published a new op-ed in International Institute for Sustainable Development's SDG Knowledge Hub.
👉 Read the full article: sdg.iisd.org/commentary/g...
📚 The RWI Harare Office, in collaboration with five academic partner universities, is facilitating a one-week Summer School on Climate Change, Environment and Human Rights from 1-6 December 2025 at the Midlands State University.
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We concluded a study visit by a UPCHR delegation to Austria through which representatives from 10 regions across Ukraine and the Secretariat took part in discussions on topics such as human rights protection at the local level, the rule of law, & public sector reform.
Read more: buff.ly/R09pgYC
🏆 The University of Zimbabwe emerged as the runner up in the All Africa International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition! The competition converged teams from 9 Anglo-phone countries and tested the teams’ knowledge & understanding on the application of IHL to real life cases.
01.12.2025 13:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
💡 To strengthen coordination on #ruleoflaw in broader #Europe under the #TeamSweden umbrella, RWI Senior Adviser Zuzana Zalanova delivered a lecture today to an audience of 50 Swedish judges in Lund at the annual conference of the Swedish National Courts Administration (Domstolsverket).
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RWI had the pleasure of hosting the Thailand business delegation for a study visit under their ESG Leadership Program, organized by the IRDP Thailand.
🤝 We look forward to continuing our collaboration with the Institute within RWI’s Asia program and welcoming them again to Lund!
RWI convened a technical workshop in collaboration with the AUC to explore how AU policy organs can more effectively support the implementation of decisions issued by AU’s human rights mechanisms. The workshop took place on 20-21 November 2025 at the AUC in Addis Ababa🌍 👉 Read more: buff.ly/Xg6cgg8
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⚖️ The EU Commissioner Hadja Lahbib's delivered the 2025 Anna Lindh Lecture to a full auditorium at Lund University’s Aula on: “Strengthening Compliance with International Humanitarian Law in a Fragmented World.”
👉 Read more about her visit: buff.ly/FN7NOcC
🎧 Listen to the lecture: buff.ly/hmdhZYl
📢 RWI and Mannheimer Swartling join forces to strengthen #IHL. We're pleased to anounce a new strategic partnership with one of the top Nordic business law firms Mannheimer Swartling, who will provide pro bono legal advisory services in support of #ICMD. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/s0iI0Uh
18.11.2025 14:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌎 RWI is heading to #COP30 in Brazil
RWI will bring our knowledge, experiences, and policy recommendations at the intersection between human rights and the environment.
Connect with us in Belém! And follow us here for more updates throughout COP30.
RWI recently hosted a training programme in Lund for 27 participants from Lviv, Ukraine, as part of the EUcation – Urban Governance for Human Rights and EU Integration project.
👉 Read more the Lund visit here: rwi.lu.se/news/eucatio...
Sweden's Minister of Upper Secondary Education, Higher Education and Research Lotta Edholm visited our headquarters in Lund, highlighting the importance of research and education in advancing human rights.
🔗 Read more: buff.ly/eQKPX9D
🔗 Our Human Rights Library: buff.ly/K1JLq0c
The Government of Colombia has officially expressed its support for the International Humanitarian Law Compliance Monitoring Database initiative, recognizing its value in strengthening compliance, accountability, and cooperation under international humanitarian law.
Read more ➜ buff.ly/vMUCl2A
📢🌍We’re delighted to announce that Formas, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development has awarded funding for a three-year research project led by Dr. Matthew Scott, Thematic Lead on Human Rights and the Environment at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. Read more 👉 buff.ly/TMpioEi
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RWI recently had a second workshop for the ACT (Addressing Corruption Together) project, in collaboration with Ukrainian Bar Association and Action for Justice (Moldova). The workshop was held in Vilnius, Lithuania and gathered legal practitioners from Ukraine & Moldova. More info:
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Maryam Safi, RWI Afghanistan Research Fellow, was recently invited to speak on The Breakfast Show on Voice of Islam Radio. She discussed the topic “Nobody Comes for Us: Afghan Women Trapped in a Broken Mental Health System” from a human rights perspective.
👉 Full article: rwi.lu.se/blog/the-tal...
🌿 How can we use law, policy, and transnational advocacy against global ecological destruction?
📅 Date: November 27
⏱️ Time: 16.30-18.00 CET UTC+1
📍 Location: Online (Zoom) and Ostrom in LUCSUS, Biskopsgatan 5, 223 62 Lund.
Register here: forms.gle/YCRz5w9qDYC3...
RWI is a proud partner of the Council of Europe's biennial #RaoulWallenbergPrize 🏆, recognising extraordinary people, groups or organisations for outstanding #humanitarian work and #humanrights advocacy. ⏰ Nominations close Friday, 31 Oct. More info:
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🌍 The 2025 Midlands State University Law Review (MSULR) Special Issue is out, compilling eight research papers that address the triple planetary crisis within the Zimbabwean context.
Read more: rwi.lu.se/news/2025-mi...
Learn more about the Zimbabwe Programme: rwi.lu.se/zimbabwe-pro...
⚖️ The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Harare Office, in collaboration with the National Prosecuting Authority and supported by the Embassy of Sweden in Zimbabwe, hosted a workshop on Fair Trial Rights, with 22 public prosecutors from across Zimbabwe.
Read more: rwi.lu.se/news/worksho...
#Opportunity #Consultancy
RWI is pleased to announce a Call for Applications for Legal Experts/Fellows to be placed at the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) in Arusha, Tanzania.
📌 Last day to apply: 29 October
👉 Learn more and apply here: buff.ly/KFPkZUJ
As part of the Regional Asia Pacific Programme (RAPP 2), the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, in collaboration with Asia Pacific Forum and South Asian University, delivered a blended learning course combining foundational climate knowledge with rights-based approaches to mobility.
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