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The study seeks to document examples of breaches of law experienced by domestic workers working in private households of diplomats in select host countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom). Furthermore, it analyzes legal and institutional responses and their application vis-Ã -vis bearers of diplomatic immunity in select European countries, with a focus on the exploitation of domestic workers in diplomatic households.
Author: Angelika Kartusch
Study
ISBN: 978-3-942315-17-3 (PDF)
64 p.
(PDF, 818 KB)
June 2011
The first study – "A human rights approach against human trafficking - International obligations and the status of implementation in Germany" – analyses how the prohibition of human trafficking and the resulting state obligations are anchored in human rights. The more recent specialised international agreements on human trafficking and law-making in the European Union are then presented. The emphasis is on the Council of Europe Convention, which professes to treat human trafficking in a human rights context. The study summarizes elements of a human rights approach against human trafficking and makes recommendations for further development of policies. The second study - "Compensation and remuneration for trafficked persons in Germany" – investigates how trafficked persons can be assisted in asserting their claims against perpetrators for compensation and remuneration and their claims against the state for compensation. The legal framework, particularly wage and compensation claims, is analysed and impediments to their practical implementation are shown. Key players from the state and civil society who come into contact with trafficked persons are identified, along with the need for advanced training and potential partners for cooperation.
Authors: Petra Follmar-Otto, Heike Rabe
ISBN: 978-3-937714-87-5 (PDF)
96 p.
(PDF, 942 KB, not barrier-free)
September 2009
At the Third World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in Durban in 2001, governments committed themselves to take a number of practical measures against racism. A general review of these commitments is to take place at a United Nations Conference in Geneva in late April 2009. Known as the Durban Review, the planned conference has been the focus of fierce controversy. To contribute towards a better understanding of the situation, the paper will discuss some of the background and history behind the dispute.
Author: Heiner Bielefeldt
Policy Paper
ISSN: 1614-2195
10 p.
(PDF, 103 KB, not barrier-free)
March 2009
In 2004 the institute placed great emphasis on a number of themes: By incessantly speaking out in favour of signing and ratifying the additional protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture, the institute lends its support to the prevention of torture and the cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of people. At the same time, it also bolsters an international mechanism of prevention that can only produce tangible results once a sufficient number of signatories have ratified it. The institute's statements on the question of headscarves worn by Muslim women served to make the domestic debate more objective by adding a human rights perspective. The second half of the year was largely dominated by events organized in connection with the Concluding Observations on Germany of four United Nations treaty bodies on human rights, as well as by events in connection with the Third Report on Germany of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance.
Editor: German Institute for Human Rights
Annual Report
43 p.
(PDF, 789 KB, not barrier-free)
August 2005
In 2002, the German Institute for Human Rights, founded in March 2001, undertook some major steps in the direction of a functioning human rights institution, a valuable research institute and a service point for information on human rights in Germany in 2002. This report provides an overview of the important developments.
23 p.
(PDF, 188 KB, not barrier-free)
August 2003
Daliluna, the first Arabic human rights manual for the training of trainers, is as an excerpt also available in English. The manual introduces methods of human rights education and provides modules on planning, implementation and evaluation of training courses. In addition, it offers the theoretical background on human rights issues that are relevant in the Arab region, such as discrimination, gender equality, prohibition of torture and the death penalty.
Edited by: Capacity Building International (InWEnt gGmbH), Bonn
Implementing partner: German Institute for Human Rights, Berlin
In cooperation with the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights, Bagdad
Financed by: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
English
56 p.
(PDF, 1,7 MB, not barrier-free)
October 2010
Daliluna is the first Arabic human rights manual for the training of trainers. The manual introduces methods of human rights education and provides modules on planning, implementation and evaluation of training courses. In addition, it offers the theoretical background on human rights issues that are relevant in the Arab region, such as discrimination, gender equality, prohibition of torture and the death penalty. The last part consists of a variety of activities to use in human rights trainings, ready to be used with different target groups.
ISBN: 978-3-939394-53- 2
Arabic
272 p.
(PDF, 2,2 MB, not barrier-free)
May 2010
One major area in which human rights have certainly come under pressure in recent years is security policy. This is a global phenomenon which includes Europe and Germany. The German Institute for Human Rights therefore paid special attention in 2008 to those security policy developments in Germany and Europe which threaten to diminish the value placed on rights to freedom. People often lose sight of the fact that there are human rights concerns behind apparently "technical" concepts such as data protection. The anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights therefore marked a welcome occasion for reflecting in concrete terms on the conditions people need to live their lives in dignity and liberty, including in the light of current security policy developments.
ISSN: 1869-0564
48 p.
(PDF, 1,8 MB, not barrier-free)
August 2009
With Germany holding the EU Presidency in the first half of the year, one of the main issues for the German Institute for Human Rights in 2007 was the human rights policy of the European Union. At the end of 2006 the Institute made recommendations to the German government about how to use its presidency to strengthen the human rights dimension of EU policy. These related to the EU's system of fundamental rights and to various policy fields such as data protection in internal security, guarding the EU's external borders, immigration and asylum, and the European Security and Defence Policy. At the end of 2007 the Institute took on the reporting function for Germany for the new EU Agency for Fundamental Rights that was founded in March 2007.
ISBN: 978-3-937714-67-7
44 p.
(PDF, 429 KB, not barrier-free)
February 2008
The Institute's summer 2006 lecture series "Slavery Today" marked the opening of a new priority area. It focuses on human rights tools with which to combat human trafficking, forced marriages and extreme forms of exploitation of labour. Great public attention was awarded to our study of the social human rights of elderly people under care (Soziale Menschenrechte älterer Personen in Pflege) which addressed structural and human rights deficits. The public presentation of the study set the stage for a series of consultations with representatives of politics, associations and science.
(PDF, 752 KB, not barrier-free)
July 2007
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