The 21st Austrian Lawyers' Day will be held at the University of Vienna from 1 to 3 June 2022. The theme of this year's programme for the Public Law Department is "Protecting fundamental rights in the face of new challenges". Our Scientific Director Michael Lysander Fremuth will speak on 2 June about the crisis in Ukraine, international law as well as human rights issues.
The programme of the Austrian Jurists' Day is available in the download area.
On Tuesday, 28.06.2022, from 12:30 - 17:00, the conference "Das Wohl der Kinder und ihre Interessen. 10 Jahre BVG Kinderrechte" (The well-being of children and their interests. 10 years of the Federal Constitutional Law on Children's Rights) of the Austrian Institute for Human Rights at the University of Salzburg will take place. Our colleague Helmut Sax will be one of the speakers at the conference.
The venue and further information on the event can be found in the InfoFolder in the download section below.
In the framework of our project EU Support for Rule of Law in North Macedonia an initial workshop on (inter-)national good practices "For establishing a tailor-made instrument for monitoring the implementation of children ‘s rights" will take place on 20 May.
The NGO Forum 2022 of the Austrian Ombudsman Board will take place from May 12 to 13, 2022. The focus of this year's forum is the topic "Basic Social Rights". Karin Lukas, President of the European Social Committee and Head of Programme Line at the LBI-GMR, will speak on social protection as part of a working group on May 12.
On May 13, there will be a panel discussion with representatives of all parliamentary groups.
The European Union Agency for Asylum is organising a brief info-session on the Survey of Arriving Migrants from Ukraine on Thursday 05 May (14:00-14:45 through Webex). On 8 April 2022, the EUAA launched a new Survey of Arriving Migrants from Ukraine in English, Ukrainian and Russian. The results of the survey will provide key information to policymakers and help to better tailor services for displaced persons from Ukraine. The results of the survey will provide key information to policymakers and help to better tailor services for displaced persons from Ukraine.
The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights, the University of Vienna and the Austrian League for Human Rights in cooperation with Amnesty International Austria cordially invited to the HUMAN RIGHTS TALK "Auf Kollisionskurs: Korruption versus Menschenrechte" (On Collision Course: Corruption versus Human Rights) on April 28, 2022 at 6 pm, online.
From 26 to 28 May 2022, the Austrian Lawyers' Commission (Österreichische Juristenkommission) will hold its spring conference on the topic of "Climate Change and Human Rights". With this conference, the Austrian Lawyers' Commission wants to take a look at traditional and proven legal protection mechanisms and examine how far these could be put in the service of climate protection.