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International Human Rights Tribunal
The International Human Rights Tribunal (IHRT) was a symbolic tribunal which took place in Vienna, Austria, in June 1995. It was chaired by environmental and human rights activist Freda Meissner-Blau and Gerhard Oberschlick, editor of ''FORVM'', and was dedicated to the persecution of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and Transgender people, transgender persons in Austria from 1945 to 1995. International committee As the organizers feared repressions by the Republic of Austria, they asked prominent figures from the international human rights community to join the International Committee and thus protect the endeavour. Amongst the members were Jacques Gaillot, bishop of Partenia, politicians Mel Read (UK), Svend Robinson (Canada), Claudia Roth (Germany) and Terezija Stoisits (Austria), writers Kuno Knöbl, Christine Nöstlinger and Gerhard Roth, developmentalist Robert Chambers (development scholar), Robert Chambers (Frankfurt), sociologist Bernd Marin and human rights lawyer Manfred Nowak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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IMT may refer to: * IMT, the IATA code for Ford Airport (Iron Mountain), Michigan, US * ''In Melbourne Tonight'', an Australian TV show * Individual Movement Techniques * International Military Tribunal * :da:Institut for Milit%C3%A6r Teknologi, Institute for Military Technology at Royal Danish Defence College * an abbreviation of the word, Immortality Organizations * IMT Gallery, an art gallery in London, UK * Immortals (esports), Immortals, an American esports organization * Industry of Machinery and Tractors, a Serbian producer and vendor of tractors and agricultural machinery * Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse * Institut Mines-Télécom, a French public institution for higher education and research * Inter Moengotapoe, a Surinamese football club * FK IMT, a Serbian football club * International Marxist Tendency * Islamic Movement of Turkestan Science, technology and health * IMT-2000, mobile telecommunications specifications * Information manipulation theory, an in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terezija Stoisits
Terezija Stoisits (; born 14 November 1958 in Stinatz, Austria) is an Austrian politician of the Green Party. She served as an ombudswoman of the Republic of Austria 2007–2013. Before that she was the longest serving member of parliament of her party. Education and profession Stoisits went to high school in Güssing and concluded her maturity exam in 1977. She studied law at the University Vienna, graduating with a master's degree in 1985. Thereafter she completed a one-year judiciary internship and was then employed at the Ministry of Education, Arts and Sports. Political career On 5 November 1990 Stoisits was sworn in as member of the National Council of Austria. From 1992 to 1996 she was member of the federal board of trustees of her party, representing the so-called ''10th state'', i.e. ethnic groups and minorities. In the parliament Stoisits served as spokeswoman of her party - mainly for minorities, human rights, migration and justiciary - and actively took part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doron Rabinovici
Doron Rabinovici is an Israeli-Austrian writer, historian and essayist. He was born in Tel Aviv in 1961, and moved to Vienna in 1964. Overview His first book, ''Papirnik'' (Suhrkamp, 1994), was a collection of short stories, most of them set in Vienna's Jewish environment. His novel ''Suche nach M.'', published three years later, was subsequently translated into English as ''Search for M.'' (2000), issued by the US publishing company Ariadne Press. ''Search for M.'' is the portrayal of two families with Shoah survivors, and their sons, who live with memories they can't express, in the midst of the Austrians' negation and denial of their past. In his next novel, ''Ohnehin'' (Anyway; 2004), the main protagonist, a young neurologist, Stefan Sandtner, is confronted with a patient whose sudden and bewildering illness of the mind causes his memory to fail and sets him back in the year 1945: The patient, Herbert Kerber, is stuck in his past as an SS officer. The novel's apparent light ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Haslinger
Josef Haslinger (born July 5, 1955) is an Austrian writer. Haslinger was born in Zwettl, Lower Austria. He studied philosophy, drama and Germanic studies at the University of Vienna. He received his PhD in 1980. Since then he has been working as a freelance writer. 1976 to 1992 he was co-editor of the literary magazine "Wespennest". In 1983/84 Haslinger had a teaching position at the University of Kassel, was Secretary General of the Graz Authors' Assembly from 1986 to 1989, and from 1986 to 1994 co-organizer of the "Vienna Lectures on Literature". In 1995 he was a lecturer at the University of Kassel and wrote parts of his political thriller novel, ''Opernball'' (Opera Ball) there. Haslinger has taught since 1996 as a professor of literary aesthetics at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. He lives Vienna und Leipzig. Awards and honors * 1980 Theodor Körner Prize * 1982 Österreichisches Staatsstipendium für Literatur * 1984 Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien * 1985 Stipe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Burger
Rudolf Burger (8 December 1938 – 19 April 2021) was an Austrian philosopher. Life and career Burger was born in Vienna in the year of the occupation and the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, called Anschluss. His parents were active communists. He concluded his studies of physics at the Technische Universität Wien, Technical University in Vienna and thereafter served as an assistant at the ''Institute of Applied Physics'', where he concluded his doctorate in 1965. After working at the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Condensed Matter Physics in Vienna, Burger switched to the Battelle Memorial Institute, Battelle Institute in Frankfurt. There he was part of the team for research plannings. He also joined the Planning Commission of Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Bonn. From 1973 to 1990 Burger headed the department for research in humanities and social sciences a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Lüthi
Kurt Lüthi ( – ) was a Swiss Reformed theologian and a professor at the University Vienna. Life Lüthi studied Protestant theology in Bern and Basel, amongst his teachers were Karl Barth, Karl Ludwig Schmidt and Oscar Cullmann. In 1949 he became pastor at the Reformed church of the Canton of Bern, first in Beatenberg, later on in Biel. In 1955 he achieved his doctorate in theology at the University of Basel with a thesis on Judas Iscariot, in 1959 he habilitated at the University of Bern. From 1964 until his retirement 1990 Lüthi held the chair for systematic theology ( Helvetic Confession) at the ''Protestant faculty'' of the University of Vienna. For many years Lüthi served as a member in the synod of the ''Helvetic Church in Austria'', as well as in the general synod of all ''Lutheran Churches'' in Austria. Lüthi's work focused on political philosophy, feminist theology and the relation between theology and psychoanalysis. In 1965, together with well r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LGBT Activism
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements are social movements that advocate for LGBT people in society. Some focus on equal rights, such as the ongoing movement for same-sex marriage, while others focus on liberation, as in the gay liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Earlier movements focused on self-help and self-acceptance, such as the homophile movement of the 1950s. Although there is not a primary or an overarching central organization that represents all LGBT people and their interests, numerous LGBT rights organizations are active worldwide. The earliest organizations to support LGBT rights were formed in the early 20th century. A commonly stated goal among these movements is social equality for LGBT people, but there is still denial of full LGBT rights. Some have also focused on building LGBT communities or worked towards liberation for the broader society from biphobia, homophobia, and transphobia. There is a struggle for LGBT rights today. LGBT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publicists
A publicist is a person whose job is to generate and manage publicity for a company, a brand, or public figure – especially a celebrity – or for a work such as a book, film, or album. Publicists are public relations specialists who have the role to maintain and represent the images of individuals, rather than representing an entire corporation or business. Publicists are also hired by public figures who want to maintain or protect their image. Publicists brand their clients by getting magazine, TV, newspaper, and website coverage. Most top-level publicists work in private practice, handling multiple clients. The term ''publicist'' was coined by the legal scholar Francis Lieber to describe the public-like role of internationalists during the late nineteenth century. Publicists are sometimes called ''flacks'' which traces back to Gene Flack, who was a well-known movie publicist in the 1930s. Description In the world of celebrities, unlike agents or managers, publicis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Rights Defender
A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights. They can be journalists, environmentalists, whistleblowers, trade unionists, lawyers, teachers, housing campaigners, participants in direct action, or just individuals acting alone. They can defend rights as part of their jobs or in a voluntary capacity. As a result of their activities, human rights defenders (HRDs) are often subjected to reprisals including smears, surveillance, harassment, false charges, arbitrary detention, restrictions on the right to freedom of association, physical attack, and even murder. In 2020, at least 331 HRDs were murdered in 25 countries. The international community and some national governments have attempted to respond to this violence through various protections, but violence against HRDs continues to rise. Women human rights defenders and environmental human rights defenders (who are very often indigenous) face g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Pelinka
Anton Pelinka (born October 14, 1941) is a professor of political science and nationalism studies at the English-speaking Central European University of Budapest. Prior to this appointment, Pelinka was a professor of political science at the University of Innsbruck, one of Austria's largest universities. During his career he has also served as a dean, with his most recent tenure in this role occurring between the years of 2004 and 2006 when he was dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Innsbruck. Anton Pelinka was born in the Austrian capital city of Vienna. Life After completing studies in jurisprudence at the University of Vienna (Ph.D 1964) as well as Political Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies, he worked for the weekly Newspaper "Die Furche". His first academic job was as an assistant. He returned to the Institute for Advanced Studies, whose principal at the time was the Austrian-American historian Ernst Florian Winter. In 1971 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manfred Nowak
Manfred Nowak (born 26 June 1950 in Bad Aussee) is an Austrian human rights lawyer, who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2004 to 2010. He is Secretary General of the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) in Venice, Italy; Professor of International Human Rights and Scientific Director of the Vienna Master of Arts in Human Rights and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights and a former judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2016, he was appointed Independent Expert leading the United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty. Career Nowak was a student of Felix Ermacora, and cooperated with him until Ermacora's death in 1995. They co-founded the ''Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte'' (with Hannes Tretter) in 1992. In addition to his function as Professor of Constitutional and International Law and Human Rights at Vienna University, Nowak was: * Director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernd Marin
upright=1.7, Bernd Marin (AARP/European Centre Conference, Dürnstein 2008) Bernd Marin (born 1948 in Vienna) is an Austrian social scientist. Life and career Marin studied social sciences at the University of Vienna and concluded post-graduate training at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna. From 1975 to 1984 he served at the ''Institute for Conflict Research'' in Vienna - first as a ''Research Fellow'' and later on as a ''Deputy Director''. During this period he also completed his habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ... at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and carried out post-doctoral research at Harvard University. From 1979 to 1996, he edited the ''Journal für Sozialforschung''. Marin also contributes to civic debates in newspapers an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
