Wolfgang Benedek

Dr. Wolfgang Benedek was for many years head of the Department of International Law and International Relations and co-founder and director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Graz. He has worked as an expert for the Council of Europe, the EU and the United Nations and has also advised the African Commission on Human Rights. Most recently, he prepared reports on the human rights situation in Chechnya, Belarus and Ukraine as a rapporteur under the OSCE's Moscow Mechanism. In the Western Balkans, he supported the human right to education and the establishment of several university human rights centers with World University Service Austria, which was honored with honorary doctorates from the universities of Sarajevo and Pristina. Human rights have also been the subject of various research projects, for example on the EU's fundamental and human rights policy or human rights in the information society. His work focuses on international, regional and local human rights protection, international trade and human rights, digital human rights, migration and asylum law.