Wolfgang Benedek

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Wolfgang Benedek (born February 14, 1951 in Knittelfeld , Styria ) is an Austrian lawyer and author.

Benedek is head of the Institute for International Law and International Relations at the University of Graz and co-founder of the ETC Graz (European Training and Research Center for Human Rights and Democracy) and long-time chairman of WUS Austria . He is married and has two children.

Life

In 1974 he took on a position as contract or university assistant at the Institute for International Law and International Relations at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz . In 1988 he completed his habilitation at the University of Graz with Konrad Ginther on "The legal system of GATT from an international law perspective" and received the Venia for international law and the law of international organizations. Since 2002 he has been a university professor at the Institute for International Law, of which he has been head since 2007. Since 2000 he has also been teaching at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna .

Benedek also acts as the initiator and head of important non-university institutions, with a focus on Southeast Europe :

As chairman of World University Service (WUS) Austria, Benedek has developed extensive aid and cooperation activities for universities, especially Bosnia and Herzegovina , Montenegro , Kosovo and Serbia, since 1992 .

With his support, a number of university human rights centers were founded in this area, which were subsequently connected to a network of nine centers with the help of an EU project. The coordination was taken over by the European Training and Research Center for Human Rights and Democracy (ETC) in Graz , established on his initiative in 2000 , which he headed until 2010 and in which a large number of training and research activities in the field of human rights are carried out. For his work in the field of university cooperation with Southeast Europe, he received, among other things, honorary citizenship of the city of Sarajevo and honorary doctorates from the universities of Pristina and Sarajevo .

As a consultant and expert he was for the African Commission on Human Rights in Banjul , Gambia , for UNITAR in New York , for the UN Human Rights Center in Geneva , for the European Community in Brussels , for UNESCO in Paris and for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg , he was also chairman of the establishment of the Human Rights Advisory Council of the City of Graz from 2007 to 2011.

honors and awards

  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Sarajevo
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Pristina
  • Honorary citizenship of the city of Sarajevo
  • Recognition award from the Bruno Kreisky Foundation (with WUS Austria)
  • Great Decoration of Honor of the State of Styria (temporarily returned in February 2011 as a protest against the resolution of a general begging ban in Styria: "for the time until the Styrian Landtag or the Constitutional Court lifts the general begging ban")
  • 2016 Humanity Award of the Red Cross from the Heinrich Treichl Foundation

Fonts (selection)

  • W. Benedek: Handbook of Austrian GATT Practice . Manz-Verlag, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-214-02738-7 .
  • W. Benedek, O. König, Ch. Promitzer (Ed.): Human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Science and practice. Böhlau, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-205-98993-7 .
  • W. Benedek, E. Mayambala, G. Oberleitner (Eds.): Human Rights of Women: International Instruments and African Experiences. ZED-Books, London 2002, ISBN 1-84277-044-6 .
  • W. Benedek, K. Feyter, F. Marrellaeds: Economic Globalization and Human Rights. In: Studies on Human Rights and Democratization. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-87886-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile of Wolfgang Benedek . WUS Austria website. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Benedek. In: etc-graz.at. Archived from the original on July 10, 2019 ; accessed on August 27, 2020 .
  3. ^ Bulletin of the University of Graz. ( Memento from June 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). January 21, 2004. Accessed February 4, 2011.
  4. ^ New chairmanship in the Graz Human Rights Advisory Board . ( Memento of August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Website of the city of Graz. Retrieved August 4, 2014.
  5. ↑ Short biography of Wolfgang Benedek ( memento from January 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). Website of the University of Graz. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  6. ^ Winner of the Bruno Kreisky Prize . Website of the Bruno Kreisky Foundation for Services to Human Rights. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  7. ↑ Ban on begging: international lawyer returns decorations Die Presse.com of February 16, 2011, accessed on February 16, 2011; Complete text of the deferral letter in: derstandard.at February 15, 2011, accessed March 1, 2011.
  8. ^ Humanitarian Award of the Red Cross from the Heinrich Treichl Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Benedek, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Knittelfeld