On Human Rights

During the celebration of democracy on the island of Gotland, Sweden this week, we’ve been interviewing different people involved in some way or another in human rights or international humanitarian law. In this episode of “On Human Rights,” our team leader for Inclusive Societies Gabriella Fredriksson interviews Georg Andrén. He is the General Secretary of the NGO Diakonia in Sweden and Concord,...

Our team leader for Inclusive Societies Gabriella Fredriksson sat down to talk to Charlotte Petri Gornitzka in Visby during Almedalen week in Sweden for a conversation on our “On Human Rights” podcast. Petri Gornitzka is the Chair of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. Prior to this, she served as Director-General...

In this episode we have an interview from the recent Nature of Peace conference at Lund University. Our senior researcher Alejandro Fuentes interviews Carl Bruch. He’s a senior attorney and director of international programs at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. He has been leading for many years the global effort to establish a new multidisciplinary field of environmental peacebu...

In our latest episode of "On Human Rights," we continue our series exploring human rights and blockchain. In this episode we speak to René Taus Hansen. He’s the Deputy head of quality assurance at the ministry of foreign affairs in Denmark. They recently issued a report called "Hack the Future of Development Aid: Blockchain and Development." "We wanted to start this conversation about how can we t...

In western countries, people of African Descent are the most targeted group when it comes to violent hate crimes and discrimination. In this podcast we sat down to discuss and learn more about a UN platform that aims to combat this: the International Decade for People of African Descent (the Decade). The podcast features an RWI Visiting Researcher, Michael McEachrane, who recently attended the Dec...

We are interviewing experts from around the world for our podcast series “Human Rights and Blockchain.” It is an in-depth exploration of the potential uses of blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, to improve our enjoyment of human rights. In this episode, we speak to Hanane Boujemi. She is a senior tech policy expert with more than a decade experience in the economi...

Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. For a six year period beginning in 2008, he served as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Falk recently joined us in Lund to launch his latest book. We took the opportunity to interview him...

We are launching a new podcast series, “Human Rights and Blockchain." It will be an in-depth exploration of the potential uses of blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, to improve our enjoyment of human rights. First out of the block (no pun intended) is Walid Al-Saqaf. He is a Senior Lecturer at Södertorn University in Stockholm where he does research on media techn...

In our latest episode of “On Human Rights,” we interview Nick Bryer, the head of inequality campaigns at Oxfam, about its latest report on inequality. The report, “Reward Work, Not Wealth,” finds that in the last year, 82% of new wealth went to the richest 1%. “There is a wealth of evidence that shows that tackling equality is good for everyone,” Bryer says. “More equal societies are more stable,...

In thist episode of “On Human Rights,” we hear Thomas Spijkerboer, who has, for over a decade, done research on border deaths and their correlation to European migration policies. Photo: Eric Hertz

A nurse, politician and bridge builder. In this podcast, we meet Özlem Cekic, who has for the last seven years reached out to people sending her hate emails. She calls it dialogue coffee. Enjoy!

With Thuli Madonsela

Torture: An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil by The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Is the EU losing its legitimacy and role as a promoter of human rights? by The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Jason Pobjoy: The Child in International Refugee Law by The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and hazardous substances and wastes, Baskut Tuncak, joins us for our latest episode of “On Human Rights.” “Toxic pollution is quite possibly, very likely, the leading cause of premature preventive death in the world, so the World Health Organization estimates that it’s almost 13 million people per year who die prematurely from diseases that are linked to a...

The Raoul Wallenberg Institute recently commemorated the civil courage and memory of Raoul Wallenberg here in Lund. And as part of that commemoration, we invited two women from a small town in southern Sweden to speak about the work they are doing to help young asylum seekers where they live. So we recorded this live session with Marie Clereus and Pernilla Thellmark. We hope you enjoy and are touc...

Today our Stockholm office director Malin Oud speaks to Olle Wästberg. Wästberg was long-time member of the Swedish parliament. He has had a long career in politics and media. He also served as Consul General of Sweden in New York City. Wästberg has been instrumental in getting Sweden a day to commemorate Raoul Wallenberg, on August 27.

In our latest episode of "On Human Rights," we come to you from the middle of the Baltic Sea. We’re on the small island of Gotland in Sweden where there’s an annual political gathering called Almedalen. The week-long event draws thousands from the political classes, different universities, civil society actors and business world. Today we’re speaking to Simon Ebers. He does incredible work for an...

This week, our podcast, "On Human Rights," is coming to you from the middle of the Baltic Sea, on the island of Gotland. Here all week at a political festival called almedalen, politicans, academics, the civil society, and the business community comes together to meet, debate and mingle. It’s sometimes called the largest democracy party. This year though there’s been a ton of controversy because a...

In this episode, we’re speaking to Tove Dahlgren. She is the head of the educational department for a foundation called Allbright. This is a politically independent, non-profit foundation that promotes equality and diversity in senior positions in the business sector.

In our latest episode of “On Human Rights, we feature an interview from Almedalen with our Stockholm office director Malin Oud who speaks with Phil Bloomer, who is the executive director of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre located in London. They talk about business and human rights, how business can be better at protecting human rights in their value chains and which businesses stand o...

In the middle of the Baltic Sea, the small island of Gotland in Sweden hosts an annual political gathering called Almedalen. The week-long event every July draws thousands from the political parties, different universities, civil society actors and the business world. We’ll be releasing a series of podcast interviews during the week¨to talk about a wide variety of themes, trends and issues facing...

In our latest episode of “On Human Rights,” RWI’s Senior Researcher Alejandro Fuentes interviews Professor Tove H. Malloy, who teaches at the Europa-Universität-Flensburg, Germany, and heads up the European Centre for Minority Issues’ research cluster Citizenship and Ethics. In this episode, she talks about the dynamics of minority-majority relations in Europe.

Professor Nancy Dowd’s research focuses on social justice issues connected to family law, and touches on not only family law but also juvenile law, constitutional law, race and gender analysis, and social change theories. In this episode, she talks about her recent book, which is The Man Question: Male Privilege and Subordination (2010), in which she explores masculinities theories as a means to e...