HumanRightsConsulting Vienna

Walter Suntinger

Research, teaching and consulting in the fields of Human Rights and CSR
Human Rights training and monitoring of national and international security forces
Development of human rights tool and training manuals

Since 2008 elaboration of human rights strategy for BAWAG PSK within HumanRightsConsulting Vienna
Since 2006: elaboration and implementation of human rights strategy for OMV Aktiengesellschaft within HumanRightsConsulting Vienna (together with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights)
Since 2006 Partner, HumanRightsConsulting Vienna
Since 2004 Regular trainings at Amnesty International’s Human Rights Academy
Since 2002 consulting of OSCE/ODIHR on the establishment of a "Civilian Monitoring Board of Places of Detention" in Armenia
Since 1998 free lance human rights consultant, trainer, university lecturer
Since 1994 Seminars on the European Convention on Human Rights for public officials and Seminars on "Human Rights - Fundamental Rights"
Since 1993 Lectures on Human Rights
Human rights training and methodology development with UNDP Bosnia’s Rights-based Municipal Assessment and Planning Project (RMAP)
Legal Officer with the Regional Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Vienna
Legal researcher and human rights trainer, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Vienna
Temporary legal assistant with the Regional Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Vienna
Acting Chairman of the Austrian Committee against Torture, Institute of International Law and International Relations, University of Graz

Law Degree (University of Graz) specialization on international human rights law
Studies of Spanish, French and Portuguese (University of Graz)

Nationale Präventionsmechanismen – Kategorien und Bewertung, in: Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte (Hrsg.), Prävention von Folter und Misshandlung in Deutschland, Baden-Baden 2007.
Die Erfahrungen des Menschenrechtsbeirats – Struktur und Mandat, in: Menschenrechtsbeirat (Hrsg.), Ein nationaler Präventionsmechanismus für Österreich – die Umsetzung des OPCAT, Protokoll der Fachtagung am 14.September 2007.
Menschenrechte und Polizei, Ein Handbuch für TrainerInnen, Wien 2005.
National Visiting Mechanisms: Categories and Assessment, in H.Scheu/St.Hybnerova (ed.), International and National Mechanisms against Torture, Prague 2004.
National Visiting Mechanisms: Types, Categories, Assessment, Background paper for Seminar "Domestic Visiting Mechanisms around the World: Practices and Lessons Learned", organized by the Association for the Prevention of Torture (June 2003) Geneva 2004.
Research work for Amnesty International, Combating Torture, A manual of action, London 2003.
The Human Rights Advisory Council in Austria, Annual Report of the Association for the Prevention of Torture (2001), Geneva 2002.
Menschenrechte: Konzept und Herausforderungen, Programmheft der Volkshochschule Ottakring, Sommer 2002, Wien 2002.
The prohibition of refoulement: the significance of Art. 3 of the UN Convention against Torture, proceedings of the ELENA course on the European Convention on Human Rights in relation to asylum, January 2001.