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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights

Barbara Linder

Key Competences

  • Academic/legal research on human rights and business (CSR), asylum law and migration issues, human trafficking and children’s rights
  • Consultancy on business and human rights (CSR)
  • Monitoring of the Austrian security services (Human Rights Advisory Board)
  • Development cooperation
  • Conceptual design of project proposals/events, project management and implementation
  • Experience with international multidisciplinary environments


Professional Record

  • Legal Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights, team "Human Rights in Development Cooperation and Business"
  • Coordinator of the Human Rights Advisory Board, Austria
  • Project officer on education and development, Austrian Development Agency, Austria
  • Research assistant on children’s rights, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, Italy


Education

  • E.MA Human Rights and Democratisation, European Inter-University Centre, Venice
  • Legal studies (specialisation in international relations and human rights), University of Vienna


Publications

  • Alternative Report on the Austrian Implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (OPSC)  Child Trafficking April/May 2008; published on website of Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) (http://www.crin.org/docs/Austria_ECPAT_OPSC_NGO_Report.pdf).