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As internationally renowned expert in the field of human rights, he carried out various independent expert functions for the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the European Union, the OSCE as well as for NGOs and in the corporate sector. The most important expert functions are the following:
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from 2004 to 2010. He is Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights (formerly European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, EIUC) in Venice, Italy, Professor of International Human Rights, and Scientific Director of the Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human
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In 1994, Nowak was awarded the UNESCO Prize for the Teaching of Human Rights (honorable mention), in recognition of the outstanding contribution to the development of the teaching of human rights.
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brann, Kontakt oss Kontaktpunkter UiO Adresse Universitetet i Oslo Boks 1072 Blindern 0316 Oslo Nødnummer Ved; Ring 22 85 66 66, Ulykker Og Alvorlige Hendelser.
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Nowak is author of more than 600 publication in the field of constitutional, administrative and international law, human rights as well as development studies.
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2000–2015: Head of an Independent Human Rights Commission at the Austrian Ministry of Interior and the Austrian Ombudsman Board (National Preventive Mechanism)
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2012: All Human Rights for All – Vienna Manual on Human Rights (edited together with Karolina Januszewski, Tina Hofstaetter), Vienna/Graz, 672 pages
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In 2005, Nowak visited China, claiming that torture remained "widespread" there. He also complained of Chinese officials interfering with his work.
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since 2012: Chair of an International Review Committee on assessing compliance by the Government of Taiwan with the two UN Human Rights Covenants
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on Torture, Nowak was one of the five authors of a United Nations report on the detention of captives at the United States naval base at
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2005: UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – CCPR Commentary, 2nd edition, Kehl am Rhein/Strassbourg/Arlington 1989, 946 pages
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2003: Introduction to the International Human Rights Regime, Leiden (Spanish translation 2009, Chinese translation 2010), 365 pages
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2008: The United Nations Convention against Torture – A Commentary (together with Elizabeth McArthur), Oxford, 1649 pages
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In February 2008, Nowak was a founding member of the 'Research Platform Human Rights in the European Context' at the
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Secretary General, Global Campus of Human Rights, Professor of International Human Rights, University of Vienna
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2015: Menschenrechte – Eine Antwort auf die wachsende oekonomische Ungleichheit, Vienna/Hamburg, 176 pages
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In addition to his function as Professor of Constitutional and International Law and Human Rights at the
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2004–2010: United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
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2017: Torture – An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil, Pennsylvania, 191 pages (forthcoming)
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There were serious incidents of obstructing my mission, Manfred Nowak, UN rapporteur on torture said.
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Rights at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is also co-founder and former Director of the
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1994–1997: UN Expert in charge of the Special Process on Missing Persons or Enforced Disappearances
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for Human Rights for outstanding achievements for services to international human rights and the
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2017: Human Rights or Global Capitalism, The Limits of Privatisation, Pennsylvania, 256 pages
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since 2016: Independent Expert leading the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty
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1993–2001: Expert Member of the UN Working Group on Involuntary or Enforced Disappearances
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Head of the Law Department of the Austrian Federal Academy of Public Administration in
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In September 2006, he alleged that torture may be more of a problem in Iraq since the
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Academic staff of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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1986–1993: Member of the Austrian Delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights
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2002–2006: Member of the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights
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Since 2016, he is the Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in
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1996–2003: Judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia-Herzegovina in Sarajevo
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From 6 to 9 November 2006, he presented at the international panel at
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at
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2008–2010: Member and Rapporteur of a Panel of Eminent Persons
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Olof Palme Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at
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since 2010: Vice-President of the Austrian UNESCO-Commission
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Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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for his "defense of fundamental human rights" in 2013.
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2012–2017: Vice-Chair of the Management Board of the
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European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
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