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Fundamental Rights / Human Rights general BIM Annual Report 2008
COST Action: The Role of the EU in the UN Human Rights Reform
Summary
The new COST Action “The Role of the EU in the UN Human Rights Reform” builds upon the cooperation
of the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI network) in the framework of the former COST
Action “Human Rights, Peace and Security in EU Foreign Policy”. The new project started at the end of
2008, the official start-up meeting of the Management Committee took place in Utrecht, Netherlands in
February 2009.
The main objective of the Action is to increase and consolidate knowledge of the ongoing process of
institutional and procedural reforms of the United Nations human rights system, so as to recommend
standpoints for the European Union in this process working towards strengthening the protection of
human rights world-wide.
http://w3.cost.esf.org/index.phpid=233&action_number=IS0702
http://www.humanrights.uio.no/english/ahri/
Countries
Persons
involved
Europe
Management Committee
Member
BIM COST participants
Administration
Manfred Nowak
Julia Kozma
Roland Schmidt
Karin Lukas
Helga Baumschabl
Contact person
Helga Baumschabl, helga.baumschabl@univie.ac.at
Lead
organisation
COST Office,
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute
of Human Rights
Research Platform “Human
Rights in the European Context”
Partner
organisation
Association of Human Rights
Institutes
Starting/
end date
2008 to 2012
Funded by
European Commission – Research Framework Programme
European Science Foundation
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