The
Founding conference
The founding conference of the Human Rights Alliance took place on February 16, 2024 in the Brotfabrik, Ankersaal (1100 Vienna). The aim was to gauge interest in a merger of the human rights sector in Austria. The conference, which was packed with 150 participants, painted a clear picture. In panel discussions, workshops and networking sessions, a wide variety of human rights actors came together and reaffirmed their desire for a joint alliance.
The
Programm:
Opening and welcome
Volker Türk – Videomessage
(UN High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Key Note
Tarek Naguib
(NGO Platform Human Rights Switzerland)
Podium discussion
How can an alliance strengthen human rights work in Austria?
Marty Huber
Petar Rosandić
Judith Kohlenberger
Barbara Helige
Samuel Hafner
(Queerbase)
(SOS Balkan Route)
(Migration expert WU Vienna)
(League for Human Rights)
(BlackVoices referendum)
Workshops Part I
Workshops 1 – 6
see description of workshops
Workshops Part II
Workshops 7 – 12
see description of workshops
Podium discussion
Paths to a human rights alliance
Philipp Sonderegger
Shoura Zehetner-Hashemi
Rita Isiba
Julia Moser
(Activist)
(Amnesty International Austria)
(Zara)
(Light for the World)
Workshop
Overview
01 Workshop
What does a human rights alliance need?
What does a human rights alliance need to be able to work effectively? What tasks should a human rights alliance ...
Philipp Sonderegger, Moritz Birk
02 Workshop
Shrinking Spaces and the connection to the Human Rights Alliance
Since shrinking space is a global phenomenon that also affects European countries, it is important that an Austrian ...
Sophie Veßl, Daniel Bacher
03 Workshop
Reclaiming Expertise
Who is an expert and who assesses the existence or non-existence of expert status? Does the term ...
Hannah Zach, Sophie Rendl
04 Workshop
Complaints about measures and active involvement of affected communities
After an input on what complaints about measures are and in which cases they are useful and promising ...
Clemens Lahner
05 Workshop
Sketching Social Change: drawing political comics
Esma Bošnjaković
06 & 11 Workshop
Poster Walk: Exciting projects from the human rights scene
Project Individual Complaint before the Constitutional Court, Book Presentation “Radical Inclusion” & Ecological ...
Hannes Tretter, Hannah Wahl, Ingrid Pintaritsch
07 Workshop
Inclusion, participation and accessibility as an important pillar of a human rights alliance in Austria
Julia Moser, Heidemarie Egger
08 Workshop
Global solidarity
Alexander Behr
09 Workshop
Making human rights measurable?
Human rights indicators and the role of state and civil society in them: The workshop pursues 3 interwoven ...
10 Workshop
Crash course “Campaigning with Amnesty”
Denise Tan
Your
voices
An MRA in Austria is important because ...
Sophie Veßel
AG Global Responsibility
“...in Austria, human rights are too rarely heard in public and political discourse.”
Sophie Rendl
Women's domain
“... because there is so much knowledge and experts in Austria from the fields of human rights, NGOs, grassroots organizations, research and through an alliance this knowledge can be linked and then more can be achieved together and the whole issue of human rights can reach everyone on a broad scale.”
Clemens Lahner
Lawyer
“...because it makes much more sense if everyone pulls together and doesn't fight against windmills on their own.”