Manfred Nowak
Manfred Nowak ( born June 26, 1950 in Bad Aussee, Styria ) is an Austrian lawyer.
Nowak is regarded as a pupil of Felix Ermacora and is Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Vienna.
Life
Manfred Nowak visited the BG / BRG Ramsauerstrasse in Linz and finished his school career in 1968 with the Matura.
In 1975, Nowak received his doctorate in law at the University of Vienna and a year later a Master of Laws from Columbia University in New York. Since 1986 he is a lecturer at the University of Vienna, since 2011 Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Institute for European, International and Comparative Law or before Professor at the Institute of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna. Scientific Director of the Vienna Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights ( BIM) is Nowak since 1992, this he had founded together with Felix Ermacora and Hannes Tretter. The following year he became a member of a group of experts of the United Nations, which he served until 2001. From 1994, Nowak worked for three years as a UN expert on missing persons in the former Yugoslavia. Member of the International Commission of Jurists ( ICJ ), he is since 1995. This year he also joined the Committee of the International Human Rights Tribunal against the Republic of Austria because of the persecution and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Austria from 1945 to 1995 and spoke at the sentencing.
Between 1996 and 2003, Nowak worked as a judge of the International Court of Justice in Bosnia Herzegovina. There he witnessed in January 2002 as CIA agents abducted six terror suspects who had previously been acquitted for lack of evidence.
On 1 December 2004, he was appointed by the UN Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur on Torture. In November 2010, Juan E. Méndez was his successor.
In this office Nowak was made in 2006 before a critical report on the conditions in the U.S. detention center in Guantánamo. The U.S. government criticized him for it sharp. Nowak, who was not allowed to visit the camp, alleged torture -like conditions and degrading treatment of detainees. In essence, he relied on statements of prisoners and lawyers, citing internal law enforcement arrangements of Defense of the United States.
2006 Manfred Nowak intervened in a case of severe ill-treatment of a deportee by officials of a special unit Wiener.
In Austria, he works for the Human Rights Advisory Board of the Ministry of Interior. Again, Nowak is committed to human rights compliant prison conditions. Nowak is currently Vice- President of the Austrian Commission for UNESCO. Nowak leads the EU - project Atlas of Torture - Monitoring and Preventing Torture Worldwide on Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights.
Since 2012, he Manfred Nowak international, interdisciplinary, two -year course "Vienna Master of Arts in Human Rights " at the University of Vienna.
Private
He is the father of two children and speaks his native language, German fluent in English and Dutch.
Prices
Writings
- Basic political rights. Springer, Wien, 1988, ISBN 3-211-81993-2 ( habilitation thesis ).
- UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocol. CCPR Commentary. Engel, Kehl, 1989, ISBN 3-88357-077- X; UN covenant on civil and political rights. CCPR commentary. Engel, Kehl 1993, ISBN 3-88357-106-7.
- The myth of effective human rights protection. In: FORVM. Vienna 1995, Volume 493/494.
- Introduction to the international human rights system. New scientific Verlag, Wien 2002, ISBN 3-7083-0080-7.
- ( with Elizabeth McArthur ) The United Nations Convention against Torture. A Commentary. Oxford UP, New York, 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-928000-1.
- Torture. The ordinariness of the incomprehensible. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-218-00833-4.
- All Human Rights for All - Vienna Manual on Human Rights, edited together with Karolina Januszewski and Tina Hofstätter, Intersentia / New Scientific Verlag, Wien 2012, ISBN 978-3-7083-0853-1.