Monitoring

The Act on the Legal Status and Mandate of the German Institute for Human Rights (DIMRG) provides that the Institute should submit an annual report on the development of the human rights situation in Germany to the German Federal Parliament.

The German Institute for Human Rights submits an annual report to the German Federal Parliament in accordance with section 2 (5) of the Act on the Legal Status and Mandate of the German Institute for Human Rights (DIMRG). The annual report provides information on key topics of the respective calendar year, gives insights into the work of the individual departments and provides facts and figures on the Institute’s work.

For more than ten years, the German Institute for Human Rights has been the German research partner of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and prepares reports on the human rights situation in Germany on its behalf.

National human rights institutions and civil society organisations have the right to submit so-called “parallel reports” to the UN expert committees as part of the state examination procedure and to the UN Human Rights Council as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). As Germany’s national human rights institution, the German Institute for Human Rights regularly contributes to these procedures with its own reports on the human rights situation in Germany.

The first periodic report of the independent National Rapporteur Mechanism on trafficking in human beings of the German Institute for Human Rights monitors key human rights developments in the field of trafficking in human beings.

The independent National Rapporteur Mechanism on gender-based violence at the German Institute for Human Rights presented its first periodic report.