Manfred Nowak

Manfred Nowak
Manfred Nowak (September 2007)
Born (1950-06-26) 26 June 1950 (age 74)
Bad Aussee, Austria
NationalityAustrian
Alma materUniversity of Vienna (LL.D.), Columbia University (LL.M.)
Occupation(s)Secretary General, Global Campus of Human Rights, Professor of International Human Rights, University of Vienna
TitleUniv.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult.

Manfred Nowak (born 26 June 1950 in Bad Aussee) 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 (formerly European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, EIUC) in Venice, Italy,[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]

  1. ^ Global Campus of Human Rights. "Global Campus of Human Rights Website".
  2. ^ University of Applied Arts Vienna. "Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights".
  3. ^ OHCHR. "Manfred Nowak: Independent Expert for the United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty".