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Racial Discrimination in Sweden : Driving Change Through the Use of Law (2021)

On Human Rights - The Raoul Wallenberg Institute podcast

This episode focuses on Campaining Against Racism in Sweden with Isatou Aysha Jones, Founder of Black Lives Matter Sweden.

On March 21st we started to discuss racial discrimination in Sweden with Aysha Jones. We sat down last week to continue this conversation and know more about anti-racist campaigning, Sweden’s denialism and intersectionality. Aysha also offered us her thoughts on the approaches for Black Lives Matter going forward.

Racial Discrimination in Sweden : Driving Change Through the Use of Law (2021)

On Human Rights - The Raoul Wallenberg Institute podcast

Sweden is usually not the country that comes to mind when one thinks about racism and racial discrimination. Yet, it is part of its history and still an issue today.

In this episode we discuss civil society’s involvement and how it can drive change in that regard with Paul Lappalanein,  member of the European network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination.

On racism : Every Third Afro-European have been confronted with hate crime  (2020)

On Human Rights - The Raoul Wallenberg Institute podcast

We spoke with Michael Mc Eachrane and Morten Kjaerum about racism in Europe and Black Lives Matter.

Michael McEachrane is a Visiting Researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. His current research focus is on postcolonial/decolonial perspective on human rights, structural racial discrimination and reparatory justice. Michael McEachrane is a regualr commentator on issues of race for international as well as Swedish media.

Morten Kjaerum is the Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. Prior to that, he was the first Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in Vienna from 2008 to 2015. He is currently also Chair of the Board of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE).

Theses are the issues facing Afro-Swedes : you may be surprised  (2020)

On Human Rights - The Raoul Wallenberg Institute podcast

A conversation between Nike Sandberg, spokesperson for the Afro-Swede Network in Skane and Michael McEachrane, visiting researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. Together, they sat down to talk about her work and the situation for Afro-Swedes in the country.

The decade : A Vehicle to Combat Anti-Black racism (2018)

On Human Rights - The Raoul Wallenberg Institute podcast

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). A podcast with Michael McEachrane, visiting researcher of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute.

"Everybody has a certain mandate to combat discrimination (2016)

On Human Rights - The Raoul Wallenberg Institute podcast

Michael Balcerzak is a professor of international human rights law at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. We spoke to him about his work as a member of the UN's working group Committee of Experts on People of African Descent.

Will We Ever Eradicate Racism ? (2016)

On Human Rights - The Raoul Wallenberg Institute podcast

Gay McDougall is a Human rights activist and lawyer. She is a Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Leitner Center on International Law and Justice at Fordham University Law School, and is a member of the United Nation's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. We spoke with her about CERD and racial discrimination.

Virtual conversation between father and son (2021)

Café en casa - A serie by the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences 

"A virtual discussion between a father and son—Madubuko and Jason (Timbuktu) Diakité— moderated by Michael McEachrane on what it means to be Black across the Atlantic".