The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (German: Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte, BIM) is a Vienna-based research institute affiliated with the Austrian

Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft The Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG) is an Austrian network of specialized research institutes that are not part of a university. It was founded in 1961 and named after physicist Ludwig Boltzmann Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (; 20 February 18 ...

, that specializes in the area of

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History

It was founded in 1992 by

Felix Ermacora Felix Ermacora (13 October 1923 – 24 February 1995) was a leading human rights expert of Austria and a member of the Austrian People's Party. Biography In his youth, Ermacora served in the army of Nazi Germany at the rank of private. He wa ...

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 Rig ...

and

Hannes Tretter Hannes Tretter (born 5 July 1951 in Vienna) is an Austrian lawyer and human rights expert. He is Professor of Human Rights at the University of Vienna and Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte, which he cofounded with Felix ...

, all three Professors of Law at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich hist ...

. Felix Ermacora († 1995) served as its first director, followed by Manfred Nowak and Hannes Tretter as joint scientific directors (2009–2019). Since 2019 Michael Lysander Fremuth has been scientific director. Fremuth also holds a professorship for Fundamental and Human Rights at the University of Vienna. The Institute is located at Freyung 6 in the city center of

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. It cooperates with the Institut für Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht at the

. In 1993, the Institute organised and coordinated the activities of more than 3,000 NGO delegates during the

World Conference on Human Rights The World Conference on Human Rights was held by the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, on 14 to 25 June 1993. It was the first human rights conference held since the end of the Cold War. The main result of the conference was the Vienna Declarati ...

. In 2002, the Institute became a general mandate by the European Commission for the execution of twinning projects. Since the establishment of the research platform Human Rights in the European Context in 2008, the Institute coordinates the research platform that brings together researchers of six faculties of the University of Vienna.

Structure

The Institute's day-to-day work is managed by the Managing Director Patricia Mussi-Mailer. There are the following research areas within in the Institute: * Human

Dignity Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically. It is of significance in morality, ethics, law and politics as an extension of the Enlightenment-era concepts of inherent, inalienable ...

and Public Security * Development Cooperation and Business * European Neighbourhood and Integration Policy * Anti Discrimination,

Diversity Diversity, diversify, or diverse may refer to: Business *Diversity (business), the inclusion of people of different identities (ethnicity, gender, age) in the workforce *Diversity marketing, marketing communication targeting diverse customers * ...

and Asylum *

Women's Rights Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, ...

Children's Rights Children's rights are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors.

and

Trafficking in Human Beings Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extra ...

Human Rights Education Human rights education (HRE) is the learning process that seeks to build up knowledge, values, and proficiency in the rights that each person is entitled to. This education teaches students to examine their own experiences from a point of view t ...

* Digital Rights

Awards

In 1995, the Institute was awarded the human rights award "Bruno-Kreisky Preis für Verdienste um die Menschenrechte". In 2007, the same prize was awarded to the Institute's former scientific co-director Manfred Nowak.

Publications

In 1999, the Institute became co-editor of "Jahrbuch Menschenrechte" a yearbook on human rights. Between 1999 and 2007, the Institute published its own study series with the publisher Verlag Österreich. Since 2008, the Institute publishes with the Austrian Neuer Wissenschaftlicher Verlag (NWV) the studie series "Studienreihe des Ludwig Boltzmann Instituts für Menschenrechte" (available internationally via Intersentia publishers): (selection) *Universal Criminal Jurisdiction as Mechanism and Part of the Global Struggle to Combat Impunity with Particular Regards to the Crime of Torture, Manfred Nowak, Fiona Steinert and Hannes Tretter (Eds), Vienna 2012 (Studienreihe, Volume 23) *A World Court of Human Rights – Consolidated Statute and Commentary, Julia Kozma, Manfred Nowak, Martin Scheinin, Vienna 2011 (Studienreihe, Volume 22) *Extraordinary Renditions and the Protection of Human Rights, Vienna, 2010 (Studienreihe, Volume 20) In addition, there are many publications by the Institute's staff in addition to this study series.

References

External links

Ludwig Boltzmann Institut of Human RightsLudwig Boltzmann SocietyResearch Platform Human Rights in the European Context
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ludwig Boltzmann Institut fur Menschenrechte Human rights organisations based in Austria Research institutes in Austria University of Vienna 1992 establishments in Austria