Publications

How do biodiversity, conservation and human rights relate to each other? The text analyses the newly emerging connections between two formerly separated areas of law: biodiversity law and human rights law. The findings provide valuable guidance and an…

The Independet Expert Claudia Mahler has written a report in 2023. Her job is to help to make sure that older people everywhere get their human rights. The report is about: • Violence and other bad things that happen to older people. • What countries…

Several regional organisations have developed human rights instruments and institutions, reflecting the history, culture and legal tradition of the respective region. In Asia, a human rights system that covers the entire region does not exist yet. There are,…

This summary report presents a brief overview on the development of gender-based violence in Germany since January 1, 2020, and on the federal and state governments’ efforts to meet their obligations under human rights and European law in this area.

Refugee parents often encounter problems in obtaining a birth certificate for their child born in Germany. The poster ‘Birth certificate without papers’ refers to our multilingual online guide in German, English and Arabic as well as with QR codes. The guide…

The German Institute for Human Rights annually submits a report on the development of the human rights situation in Germany to the German Federal Parliament (in accordance with sec. 2 para. 5 of the Act regarding the Legal Status and Mandate of the German…

The factsheet provides concise answers to eight questions on the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings and the EU Directive against Trafficking in Human Beings in Germany.

The “Promising Practices” series presents development cooperation programs that have implemented elements of a human rights-based approach. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has been commissioning GIZ Rwanda to support…

The summary of the report presents an overview of how the phenomenon of human trafficking has developed in Germany since January 1, 2020, and what efforts the German government as well as the governments of the federal states have made to fulfill their human…

Case of Basu v. Germany (Application no. 215/19) Judgment date: 18 October 2022 On 18 October 2022, the European Court of Human Rights decided the case of Basu v. Germany and found that the applicant’s rights to privacy and non-discrimination had been…