Austrian League for Human Rights

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The Austrian League for Human Rights is the oldest Austrian human rights organization. It was in 1926 as part of the International League for Human Rights founded and was initially Masonic dominated. After the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938, the league disbanded itself preventively. Many of its members were persecuted during the Nazi era. It was re-established immediately after the Second World War .

The association describes itself as a non-partisan community of action. The legal form is an association based in Vienna. It campaigns for the observance and improvement of the rights of ethnic groups as well as racial, religious, sexual and social minorities with public relations, events and publications. Since 1989 the league has been compiling an annual human rights report on the situation in Austria.

The history of the league was processed under the direction of historian Wolfgang Schmale from 2008 to 2011 at the University of Vienna and in 2013 in an exhibition, funded by the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism , under the title In the service of humanity - The checkered history of Documented Austrian League for Human Rights .

media

The membership magazine Das Menschenrecht was published from 1949 to 2002 . Since 2003 the magazine has been called liga . In 2009 the editor Sibylle Hamann received the Concordia Prize for Human Rights. 2017 was sent under the Prof. Claus Gatterer Prize , the Honorable recognition to General Secretary Kira Preckel and editor in chief Hanna autumn .

Human rights award

Since 2010, the league has been awarding the 2,000 euro human rights prize annually to individuals or non-governmental organizations .

Prize winners:

2010: Advice for deserters and refugees in Vienna
2011: Michael Genner
2012: Amani el Tunsi . The Egyptian has been running the first feminist radio station in the Arab world, "Banat wa bas- for Girls only", since 2008 to educate women about issues such as domestic violence , sexual abuse and female genital mutilation .
2013: Hemayat , center for interpreter-assisted medical, psychological and psychotherapeutic care for refugees traumatized by torture and war
2014: Begging lobby (Vienna, Upper Austria , Tyrol ). "Representing all initiatives that oppose a ban on begging in Vienna and advocate respectful treatment of begging people." (ORF)
2015: Private initiative Train of Hope . Aid for refugees at Vienna Central Station
2016: Richard and Linde Wadani
2017: Osman Isçi, Human Rights Association and human rights organization in the Mediterranean region, EuroMed Rights
2018: Claus-Peter Reisch , captain of the lifeline
2019: Alexander Pollak ; Lifetime achievement award: Werner Vogt

literature

Margarete Grandner, Wolfgang Schmale, Michael Weinzierl (eds.): Basic and human rights. Historical perspectives - current problems , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-56630-X

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Exhibition: History of the Austrian League for Human Rights, University of Vienna, October 15, 2013
^ Austrian League for Human Rights, Association. City vienna
↑ Entry on Austrian League for Human Rights in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
↑ The long way to being human , Doris Griesser / DER STANDARD, print edition, July 13, 2011
^ Exhibition “In the service of humanity” from October 23, 2013 to November 18, 2013, University Library, University of Vienna.
↑ In the service of humanity - The checkered history of the Austrian League for Human Rights , Austrian National Fund
↑ Claus Gatterer Prize for socially committed journalism at the Institute for Journalism at the University of Vienna . OTS bulletin of July 6, 2017, accessed on July 6, 2017.
↑ Dessi receives the Human Rights Prize ( Memento from December 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 10, 2015
^ Austrian League for Human Rights: Human Rights Prize. Retrieved May 29, 2020 .
↑ Iris Mostege: Egypt. Mahmoud Ghozlan and Amani El Tunsi , Wiener Zeitung, January 20, 2012
↑ Human Rights Award for begging lobby , Vienna ORF.at, December 13, 2014
^ Human rights award for "Train of Hope", Vienna ORF.at, December 11, 2015
↑ Human Rights Prize - Austrian League for Human Rights. Retrieved December 9, 2018 .
↑ Human rights award for the captain of the rescue ship . Deutschlandfunk.de , accessed on December 9, 2018.
↑ SOS fellow spokesman Pollak receives Human Rights Award 2019. In: ORF.at . December 6, 2019, accessed December 8, 2019 .
↑ "On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Austrian League for Human Rights, the Institute for History of the University of Vienna organized an interdisciplinary lecture series on the subject of" History of Human Rights "in the 2001/2002 winter semester. The individual lectures in the series are printed in this volume. ”In: Walter Rösch, review of: Margarete Grandner / Wolfgang Schmale / Michael Weinzierl (eds.): Basic and human rights. Munich: 2002, in: Portal for Political Science , published on January 1, 2006

[1] Exhibition: History of the Austrian League for Human Rights, University of Vienna, October 15, 2013

[2] Austrian League for Human Rights, Association. City vienna

[3] Entry on Austrian League for Human Rights in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

[4] The long way to being human , Doris Griesser / DER STANDARD, print edition, July 13, 2011

[5] Exhibition “In the service of humanity” from October 23, 2013 to November 18, 2013, University Library, University of Vienna.

[6] In the service of humanity - The checkered history of the Austrian League for Human Rights , Austrian National Fund

[7] Claus Gatterer Prize for socially committed journalism at the Institute for Journalism at the University of Vienna . OTS bulletin of July 6, 2017, accessed on July 6, 2017.

[8] Dessi receives the Human Rights Prize ( Memento from December 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 10, 2015

[9] Austrian League for Human Rights: Human Rights Prize. Retrieved May 29, 2020 .

[10] Iris Mostege: Egypt. Mahmoud Ghozlan and Amani El Tunsi , Wiener Zeitung, January 20, 2012

[11] Human Rights Award for begging lobby , Vienna ORF.at, December 13, 2014

[12] Human rights award for "Train of Hope", Vienna ORF.at, December 11, 2015

[13] Human Rights Prize - Austrian League for Human Rights. Retrieved December 9, 2018 .

[14] Human rights award for the captain of the rescue ship . Deutschlandfunk.de , accessed on December 9, 2018.

[15] SOS fellow spokesman Pollak receives Human Rights Award 2019. In: ORF.at . December 6, 2019, accessed December 8, 2019 .

[16] "On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Austrian League for Human Rights, the Institute for History of the University of Vienna organized an interdisciplinary lecture series on the subject of" History of Human Rights "in the 2001/2002 winter semester. The individual lectures in the series are printed in this volume. ”In: Walter Rösch, review of: Margarete Grandner / Wolfgang Schmale / Michael Weinzierl (eds.): Basic and human rights. Munich: 2002, in: Portal for Political Science , published on January 1, 2006