Manfred Nowak is an Austrian human rights expert, who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2004 to 2010. He is Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice, Italy, Professor of International Human Rights, and Scientific Director of the Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is also co-founder and former Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights and a former judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2016, he was appointed Independent Expert leading the United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty.
The University of Pristina is a public university located in Pristina, Kosovo. It is the institution that emerged after the disestablishment of the University of Pristina (1969–1999) as a result of the Kosovo War. The inauguration of the university was a historical occurrence not only for the people of Kosovo, but for the whole Albanian nation. On 15 February, the solemn Parliament session took place, which is also proclaimed as The University of Pristina's Day. In the composition of the newly established University of Pristina were faculties with their headquarters in Pristina: the Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Law and Economics, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Medicine. Now the University of Pristina has 17 faculties, of which 14 are academic faculties and 3 are faculties of applied sciences. Contained within the emblem is a translation of the name into Latin, Universitas Studiorum Prishtiniensis.
Mykolas Romeris University is an international university located with campuses in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania.
Enver Hasani was the president of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo.
Fabrizio Marrella, born in Venice, Italy, is Professor of International Law and of International Business Law at the University of Venice. In 2008, he was appointed as the E.MA Programme Director at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) where he was a member of the Board of Directors.
The Europa-Kolleg Hamburg is a foundation under private law. Its objective lies in the promotion of research and postgraduate education in the field of European integration and international cooperation. The foundation provides financial and administrative support for these purposes.
Florence Benoît-Rohmer is a French jurist, specializing in European Law and Human Rights, and currently a Professor of Public Law at the University of Strasbourg.
University Human Rights Centers are centers established at universities for the purpose of promoting human rights and social justice locally, nationally, and globally through education, fieldwork, and other efforts.
The University of Pristina was founded in the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, Socialist Republic of Serbia, Yugoslavia, in the city of Pristina, for the academic year 1969–1970 and functioned until 1999. However, owing to political upheaval, war, successive mutual expulsions of faculty of one ethnicity or the other, and resultant pervasive ethnic-based polarisation, there came to be two disjoint institutions using the same name, albeit idiosyncratically to reflect ethnic identity. Albanian-language activity continues at the original location, whilst the Serbian-language University of Priština has relocated to North Mitrovica, where it maintains its place within the Serbian education system.
The Faculty of Political Sciences is a constituent institution of the University of Belgrade which focuses on education and research in the fields of political science, international relations, journalism and communication studies, and social policy and social work. It was established in 1968, as a first faculty of this type in former Yugoslavia.
The International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel (INCHER-Kassel) is an interdisciplinary research establishment of the University of Kassel, Germany in the field of higher education research and scientific research on higher education institutions. Researchers at INCHER-Kassel are involved in the study of various aspects related to higher education, university studies, and science, and work on a broad range of themes and disciplines at the interface of higher education systems and other social contexts. INCHER-Kassel is one among the few higher education research institutions in Germany that is attached to a university and is the only research establishment of its kind that has operated successfully for more than three decades. It is widely considered as one of the most significant international institutions in higher education research.
Horst Fischer born 1950 in Duisburg, Germany, is Adjunct Professor at SIPA/Columbia University in New York and Professor emeritus at Leiden University, Netherlands.
In the past, Kosovo’s capabilities to develop a modern health care system were limited. Low GDP during 1990 worsened the situation even more. However, the establishment of the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Pristina marked a significant development in health care. This was also followed by launching different health clinics which enabled better conditions for professional development.
Andrei Paul Zlătescu is a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee for 2014. He has also served as an assistant professor for universities including Western University.
The Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV) at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) is one of the leading research institutes on humanitarian law and humanitarian studies in Europe.
The Centre for Contemporary Politics is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organization founded in Belgrade in May 2012. The centre is a think tank focused on a range of fields, including reforms of the political system, foreign affairs and security, as well as protection of human and minority rights. The centre's primary mission is to enact reforms to the political system that protect human and minority rights, as well as ensure a safe and fair integration of Serbia into greater Europe. Operating as a think-tank, the Centre for Contemporary Politics conducts assessments and analyses on the various political issues facing the region, including political integrity, national security, and human rights. It develops and proposes objective strategies to deal with threats to the region's political and social fabric, regional stability and cooperation and protection through PR and public awareness campaigns, community forums and youth leadership training.
Steve Peers is a British academic and an expert on the European Union. He is a professor in the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of EU Justice and Home Affairs Law and The Brexit: The Legal Framework for Withdrawal from the EU or Renegotiation of EU Membership.
The Arab Master's in Democracy and Human Rights is a regional programme established for the study and reinforcement of democracy and human rights in the Arab region. It brings together five leading regional universities: Birzeit University (Palestine), the International University of Rabat (Morocco), the University of Carthage (Tunisia), the University of Jordan (Jordan) and Saint Joseph University of Beirut (Lebanon). It is partnered with the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) and is supported by the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the European Union. It is part of a Global Campus of Regional Masters in Human Rights and Democratisation.
Wolfgang Benedek is an Austrian jurist and author.
The OSCE Mission in Kosovo (OMiK) is a field mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe operating in Kosovo. The mission was deployed in July 1999 to support the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) in the field of democratisation, institution building and human rights in Kosovo.
