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Events BIM Annual Report 2008
Advocacy for Incorporating the Convention on the Rights of the Child in National Legislation
Lecture of Helmut Sax and facilitation of the working group "Developing and working with indicators for
monitoring child rights" at the Fifth Regional Meeting of NGO Children’s Rights Coalitions in Europe,
Bucharest, 28 to 30 October
Selected Rights under the ICCPR
Workshop held by Manfred Nowak for the Raoul Wallenberg Institute / Human Rights Law Research
Centre at the Istanbul Bilgi Universität, Istanbul, 30 and 31 October
Juristras Project Conference
Participation of Kerstin Buchinger and Astrid Steinkellner in the 5 th conference of the project „Juristras
– The Strasbourg Court, democracy and human rights of individuals and groups“, Yildiz Technical
University, Istanbul, 30 October to 2 November
Trafficking in Human Beings
4 workshops at schools regarding trafficking in human beings based on the educational toolkit developed
by the BIM and 2 introductory presentations for pupils to the Austrian trafficking-related movie
„Kurz davor ist es passiert” held by Julia Planitzer, October and November
The Role of the EU in UN Human Rights Reform
November 2008
Participation of Manfred Nowak and Helga Baumschabl in the Management Committee Meeting of the
same-named COST project (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research),
Brussels, 6 November
Reasons for the Establishment of a World Court for Human Rights
Lecture of Manfred Nowak at the German United Nations Association, Berlin,
7 November
Development Cooperation and Human Rights
Workshop held by Christine Sommer and Claudia Sprenger at the Amnesty International Human
Rights conference „A/No Reason to Celebrate“, 7 and 8 November
(Dis)abilities. Development. Human Rights.
Participation of Claudia Sprenger in a panel discussion on accessible barrier-free development. Organised
by Light for the World in the Austrian Parliament, 19 November
The Situation of Detainees
Presentation of Manfred Nowak to the UN Committee against Torture, Geneva, 20 November 2008
Politics of Attraction
Lecture of Nicole Liege at the symposium „Invisible Intelligence: Present Critical Theory in Austria“,
Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 20 and 21 November
Humanity and the Experience of Violence and Genocide
Participation of Hannes Tretter in a Round Table at the international workshop ”Routes to Mauthausen”.
Organised by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for for Historical Social Science and the Department
for Contemporary History of the University of Vienna, 27 November
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