Curriculum Vitae

Born 26 June 1950 in Bad Aussee
Nationality Austrian
 

Education

1986 Dr. habil of Constitutional Law University of Vienna

1975 LL.M Columbia University New York

1973 Dr. Iuris University of Vienna

Present Functions

since 2011 Professor for International Law and Human Rights, University of Vienna

since 2010 Vice-President of the Austrian UNESCO-Commission

since 2009 Head of the Inter-Disciplinary PHD Research School "Empowerment through Human Rights" at University of Vienna

since 2009 Chair of COST Action "The Role of the EU in the Human Rights Reform"

since 2008 Head of the interdisciplinary research platform "Human Rights in the European Context " at the University of Vienna

since 2008 Member and Rapporteur of a Panel of Eminent Persons selected by the Swiss Foreign Minister to draft and promote an Agenda for Human Rights which was launched in Geneva on 5 December 2008

since 2008 Member of the Austrian Monitoring Committee established in accordance with Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

since 2007 FRALEX Senior/International Expert to the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency which was established in March 2007

since 2000 Head of an Independent Human Rights Commission at the Austrian Ministry of Interior (under the Human Rights Advisory Board of the Ministry)

• preventive visits to places of police detention and controls the use of force by Austrian law enforcement personnel;

since 1998 Austrian National Director Representing the University of Vienna in the EMA (European Master in Human Rights and Democratization) Programme, appointed by the Rector of the University of Vienna

From 2000 to 2007 EMA Chairperson

• EMA is based in Venice, was initiated by the European Commission and is jointly organised by 41 European Universities. As a model for similar multidisciplinary educational programmes, EMA was awarded the 2006 UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education (Honourable Mention)

since 1995 Member of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)

• Fact-finding mission on Tibet and trainings on human rights in Taiwan

since 1992 Co-Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM) at the University of Vienna

• Founded together with Felix Ermacora and Hannes Tretter in February 1992; coordinator of NGO-parallel events during the 1993 U.N. World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna for which BIM received the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Services to Human Rights in 1995

Former Relevant Experience

2004-2010 U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment

• Fact-finding missions to China, Nepal, Mongolia, Georgia, Jordan, Paraguay, Nigeria, Togo, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Denmark and Greenland, Moldova, Equatorial Guinea, Uruguay, Kazakhstan, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea; joint report on Guantánamo Bay; report on the situation of Human Rights in Darfur, and Secret Places of Detention;

2009-2010 Member of the Coordinating Committee of UN Special Procedures

2008-2009 Swiss Chair of Human Rights, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

2007-2008 University Professor for International Human Rights Law at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Law, Department for European, International and Comparative Law

2002-2006 Member of the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights

• Network set up by the European Commission on the Initiative of the European Parliament and published, inter alia, annual reports on the situation of human rights in the EU and its member States.

2001-2006 U.N. Expert on Disappearances

• Examination of the existing international criminal and human rights framework for the protection of persons from enforced or involuntary disappearances;
• Adviser to the Working Group of the UN Commission on Human Rights drafting a Convention on Disappearances, which was adopted by the General Assembly in December 2006

2001-2006 Consultant to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on a human rights based approach to poverty reduction strategies, which led to the adoption of the Principles and Guidelines for a Human Rights Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategies

2004 Visiting Professor at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) in Venice

2002-2003 Olof Palme Visiting Professor on Human Rights at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the University of Lund.

1996-2003 Judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia-Herzegovina in Sarajevo elected by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe

• 1998 Vice-President;
• The Human Rights Chamber was established under the Dayton Peace Agreement of 1995;

1989-2002 Professor of Law at the Austrian Federal Academy of Public Administration in Vienna.

1993-2001 Expert Member of the U.N. Working Group on Involuntary and Enforced Disappearances

• Fact-finding missions to Yemen and Sri Lanka.

1994-1997 U.N. Expert in Charge of the Special Process on Missing Persons
in the Former Yugoslavia

• Started a process of identification of missing persons through exhumation of mortal remains;
• Initiated International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP).

1986-1993 Member of the Austrian Delegation to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights

1987-1989 Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at the University of Utrecht

1973-1987 Assistant and Associate Professor at the Institute of Constitutional and Administrative Law of the University of Vienna (with Felix Ermacora)

• Sabbatical leaves for research and field-studies in the USA (Columbia University New York), Latin America, Africa, UK (LSE London), Netherlands (Institute of Public and European Law, University of Amsterdam), Germany (Institute of Public and International law, University of Bielefeld), and the United Nations at Geneva.

Further Credentials

Member of several NGOs

• Present or former member of the executive committee of various national and international non-governmental organisations active in the field of human rights and development;
• Including the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT, Geneva), the International Service for Human Rights (Geneva), the World University Service (WUS, Geneva) and WUS Austria, the Austrian Committee against Torture, the Austrian Information Service on Development Policy (ÖIE), the Austrian North-South Institute (ÖNSI), the Information Group on Latin America (IGLA), and the Austrian League for Human Rights.

Author of more than 400 Publications in the fields of constitutional, administrative and international law, human rights as well as development studies (see annex).

Editor of Periodicals and Series e.g. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, European Yearbook of Human Rights, BIM Human Rights Study Series.

Human Rights Network: Due to numerous research activities and various functions in the field of human rights for many years establishment of a large personal network with key actors in the field of international human rights protection

Various Human Rights Fact-Finding Missions for NGOs e.g. to Brazil (for the Brazilian Bishops Conference), Surinam (for International Alert), India/Tibet (for the International Commission of Jurists) and Yemen.

2010 Human Rights Award, Panteion University Athens

2008 Human Rights Medal, University of Magdeburg

2008 Medal of Honour, European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice

2007 Bruno Kreisky Prize for Human Rights for outstanding achievements for services to international human rights

1994  UNESCO Prize for the Teaching of Human Rights (Honourable Mention) in recognition of the outstanding contribution to the development of the teaching of human rights

 

Publications

Selected books in the field of human rights

• Die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention in der Rechtsprechung der österreichischen Höchstgerichte (hrsg. gemeinsam mit Felix Ermacora und Hannes Tretter), Wien 1983
• Politische Grundrechte, Wien 1988
• Fortschritt im Bewußtsein der Grund- und Menschenrechte, Festschrift für Felix Ermacora (hrsg. gemeinsam mit Dorothea Steurer und Hannes Tretter), Kehl/Strasbourg/Arlington 1988
• UNO-Pakt über bürgerliche und politische Rechte und Fakultativprotokoll - CCPR-Kommentar, Kehl/Straßburg/Arlington 1989
• International Human Rights, Documents and Introductory Notes (gemeinsam mit Felix Ermacora und Hannes Tretter), Wien 1993
• U.N. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - CCPR Commentary, Kehl/Strasbourg/Arlington 1993 (2. Auflage 2005, chinesische Übersetzung 2003)
• Europarat und Menschenrechte (Hrsg.), Wien 1994
• World Conference on Human Rights (Hrsg.), Wien 1994
• Die Schweiz und die UNO-Menschenrechtspakte - La Suisse et les Pactes des Nations Unies relatifs aux Droits de l’Homme (gemeinsam mit Walter Kälin und Giorgio Malinverni), 2. Auflage, Basel/Frankfurt/Bruxelles 1997
• EU-China Human Rights Dialogue- Proceedings of the Second EU-China Legal Expert Seminar held in Beijing on 19 and 20 October 1998 (hrsg. gemeinsam mit Xin Chunying), Wien 2000
• Einführung in das internationale Menschenrechtssystem, Wien/Graz 2002
• Introduction to the International Human Rights Regime, Leiden 2003
• The United Nations Convention against Torture – A Commentary (gemeinsam mit Elizabeth McArthur), Oxford 2008
• Protecting Dignity: an Agenda for Human Rights - Progress report on the eminent Persons Panel by Manfred Nowak, Panel member and rapporteur, Genf 2008
• Indicators and Monitoring Systems in External Policy-Making of the EU (hrsg. gemeinsam mit Julia Kozma und Roland Schmidt), BIM Human Rights Study Series, Volume 18, Wien 2010
• Extraordinary Renditions and the Protection of Human Rights (hrsg. gemeinsam mit Roland Schmidt), BIM Human Rights Study Series, Volume 20, Wien 2010
• A World Court of Human Rights - Consolidated Statute and Commentary (gemeinsam mit Julia Kozma und Martin Scheinin), BIM Human Rights Study Series, Volume 22, Wien 2010

 

Anhang	Größe
CV Manfred Nowak (PDF)	37.41 KB
Publikationsliste Nowak (08/2011) (PDF)	242.92 KB