News on human rights

Swedish people are very positive about their democracy and how it works. Despite that, a majority thinks that our democratic freedoms and rights co...

Are there better methods of assessing a person’s age, whether a person is lying, or whose DNA is at a crime scene? These are questions in some of t...

COLUMN. There are clear signs that the current political system is unable to offer all people equal opportunities to participate in political life ...

A new dissertation on surrogacy highlights Thai women's experiences of having acted as surrogate mothers. The dissertation shows the women's vulner...

Russia's war in Ukraine should be a reminder that we cannot continue to consume oil to the extent we do today. Nina von Uexkull is a peace and conf...

How can we make schools more orderly? How can we create a pleasant, peaceful classroom environment where students learn what is required and no one...

On September 12, the Department of Law will host its conference “Children's Rights in Biomedicine” to scrutinize scientific risk and uncertainty in...

Municipalities can use their local housing policy to influence the extent to which refugees are able to settle in the municipality in the long term...

Political intolerance is high in Sweden, and more than half are reluctant to express their views in public. This is shown in a survey conducted by ...

Following traditional, conservative and Christian Orthodox ideals, in contrast to the “morally adrift” West, and defending Russia as a superpower. ...

“The biggest refugee situation since the Second World War.” This is how international law scholar Rebecca Thorburn Stern describes the situation pr...

Anna Jonsson Cornell, Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, is currently working intensively with the organisation Sch...

Hello there... Li Bennich-Björkman. You’re the University’s Johan Skytte Professor of Eloquence and Government, affiliated with the Institute for R...

Uppsala University endorses the Swedish Government’s firm condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

Interest in studies and effort are important for pupils in achieving high grades, but high grades also require lots of work at home and extensive p...

New data from Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), at Uppsala University, show that the total number of fatalities stemming from organised violenc...

Peter Nobel, J.D., has been awarded the 2021 Martin Henriksson Holmdahl Prize. The SEK 50,000 prize is Uppsala University’s top honour for efforts ...

Stefan Swartling Peterson, Professor of Global Health at Uppsala University and UNICEF health specialist, has been awarded the 2020 Martin Henrikss...

Isak Svensson is, as he describes it, a product of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research. Since his undergraduate studies, he has stayed tr...

New data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Uppsala University, shows that the number of fatalities in organised violence continues to ...