On 9 May 2012 the Austrian NGO forum 
Frauen:Rechte jetzt! - NGO Forum CEDAW in Österreich (women's rights:now) presented the new Austrian CEDAW shadow report. The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women is one of the most important instruments to achieve gender equality in all spheres of life. CEDAW prohibits discrimination of women and obliges States Parties to implement measures for achieving not only legal but also de facto equality.
On March 7, 2012 - on the eve of the International Women’s Day - the official closing ceremony of the Twinning project “Promoting Gender Equality in Working Life” took place in Ankara.
On 29 March 2012, Monika MAYRHOFER (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights) presented the RED-Project within the framework of the HUMAN RIGHTS TALK: “Monitoring Racism. Data Collection and Monitoring as essential instruments in combatting Racism” in the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.
Vienna Master in Human Rights
With the newly designed Master of Arts in Human Rights the University of Vienna offers students the exciting opportunity to study human rights in an international, interdisciplinary and practice-oriented environment.
Final Conference of the COST Action “The Role of the EU in UN Human Rights Reform” 13th AHRI (Association of Human Rights Institutes) Conference
10-12 September 2012, Vienna
