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<strong>BIM</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2008</strong><br />
Human Dignity and Public Security<br />
A World Court of Human Rights<br />
Summary<br />
The year <strong>2008</strong> marked the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In order to<br />
commemorate this event, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs decided to establish a<br />
Panel of Eminent Persons, including inter alia former High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson,<br />
the UN Special Representative on Children in Armed Conflict, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, UN Special<br />
Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak, and other high-standing experts on human rights. The<br />
Panel was requested to elaborate on contemporary challenges to the enjoyment of human rights; the<br />
outcome document “Protecting Dignity: An Agenda for Human Rights” was launched in Geneva on 5<br />
December <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
In a second step, eight themes deriving from the Agenda were identified for further research, including<br />
the establishment of a World Court of Human Rights. This idea was already discussed in the 1940s<br />
alongside proposals for a High Commissioner and an International Criminal Court. It is based on the<br />
firm belief that human rights violations require remedies and is now put in the context of the reform of<br />
UN human rights mechanisms in general.<br />
The project aims at providing an assessment on the necessity and desirability of such as World Court,<br />
an analysis of the circumstances under which it could be established and a concrete proposal on how it<br />
could become operational.<br />
Further information: http://www.udhr60.ch/research.html<br />
Countries<br />
Persons<br />
involved<br />
global<br />
Authors<br />
Manfred Nowak<br />
Julia Kozma<br />
Contact person<br />
Julia Kozma, julia.kozma@univie.ac.at<br />
Lead<br />
organisation<br />
<strong>Ludwig</strong> <strong>Boltzmann</strong><br />
<strong>Institut</strong>e of Human Rights<br />
Research Platform<br />
“Human Rights in the<br />
European Context”,<br />
University of Vienna<br />
Partner<br />
organisations<br />
The Geneva Academy of<br />
International Humanitarian<br />
Law and Human Rights (Adh)<br />
Starting/<br />
end date<br />
December <strong>2008</strong> to May 2009<br />
Funded by<br />
Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs<br />
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