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Fundamental and Human Rights general

Fundamental Rights/ Human Rights general

CONFERENCE: International Criminal Law before Domestic Courts

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70 years after the drafting of the Nuremberg Principles, International Criminal Law is still confronted with major challenges: Some scholars attest that international criminal law is in a state of crisis, the International Criminal Court is under fierce attack, and core international crimes are committed regularly and often go unpunished. Overlooked in this view is the role played by national criminal jurisdictions in the prosecution of core international crimes.

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Attic Floor, Law Faculty of the University of Vienna, Schottenbastei 10-16, 1010 Vienna

PUBLICATION: European Yearbook on Human Rights 2020

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.

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

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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.

Conference: Comparison of Human Rights Values between the East and the West in Epidemic Prevention & Control

Conference: Comparison of Human Rights Values between the East and the West in Epidemic Prevention & Control

On May 30th 2020, Michael Lysander Fremuth, Scientific Director of LBI for Fundamental and Human Rights (LBI-GMR), joined the  conference "Comparison of Human Rights Values between the East and the West in Epidemic Prevention & Control", organized by the Institute for Human Rights Law of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Universal Periodic Review (UPR): 250 organisations report on the human rights situation in Austria

Under the leadership of the Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte (Austrian League for Human Rights), 250 civil society organisations have written a supplementary report to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN Human Rights Council. The result shows a clear need for action: 150 complaints about the human rights situation were identified.

Universal Periodic Review (UPR): 250 organisations report on the human rights situation in Austria

Joint Submission Universal Periodic Review 2020

Under the leadership of the Österreichische Liga für Menschenrechte (Austrian League for Human Rights), 250 civil society organisations have written a supplementary report to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN Human Rights Council. The result shows a clear need for action: 150 complaints about the human rights situation were identified. The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM) contributed its expertise in the areas of defendant's rights, children's rights, asylum and penal rights.

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