Current Publications

PUBLICATIONS: Monitoring Prison Conditions in the EU: A Handbook Series for National Preventive Mechanisms

PUBLICATION: Monitoring Prison Conditions in the EU: A Handbook Series for National Preventive Mechanisms

The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights, together with three European project partners, the Associazione Antigone, the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, have addressed how NPMs can effectively improve detention conditions across the EU in the framework of the EU-funded Project ‘Improving judicial cooperation across the EU through harmonised detention standards – The role of National Preventive Mechanisms’(2019–2021).

Civil Society and the IIMM in the Investigation and Prosecution of the Crimes Committed Against the Rohingya

The article, published in the Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, assesses the role of civil society and the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) in individual accountability proceedings by foreign domestic courts for the crimes committed against the Rohingya in light of the obstacles faced by Myanmar courts, the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

Read the full article for free here.

PUBLICATION: European Yearbook on Human Rights 2020

The European Yearbook on Human Rights brings together renowned scholars, emerging voices and practitioners. Split into parts devoted to recent developments in the European Union, the Council of Europe and the OSCE as well as through reports from the field, the contributions engage with some of the most important human rights issues and developments in Europe.

Karin Lukas, Senior Researcher at LBI of Fundamental and Human Rights, has contributed to the book as co-editor.

PUBLICATION: A Commentary on the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

A Commentary on the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
Edited by Julia Planitzer and Helmut Sax, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights
Contributors include: V. Espig, N. Katona, B. Linder, S. Mullally, R. Piotrowicz, J. Planitzer, C. Rijken, H. Sax, K. Simonova, V. Stoyanova

Access Denied? – Human Rights Approaches to Compensate for the Absence of a Right to Be Granted Asylum

Michael Lysander Fremuth
Access Denied? – Human Rights Approaches to Compensate for the Absence of a Right to Be Granted Asylum

in University of Vienna Law Review, Vol. 4 No 1 (2020), pp.79–115.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: After the Judgment in Ayyash et al., Justice at Last?

Following the Ayyash judgment, rendered in August 2020 by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, our scientific director Michael Lysander Fremuth and our researchers Andreas Sauermoser and Konstantina Stavrou provided an assessment of the contribution of the tribunal to international criminal justice. To see more, see the blog published recently in Opinio Juris.

Statement on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM) highlights the need to increase efforts to effectively implement standards preventing torture and other forms of ill-treatment worldwide. Giuliana Monina adresses current issues in her statement.

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