Parallel to the granting of awards, the Bruno Kreisky Foundation has also developed other activities in the area of Austrian and international human rights policy and education in human rights. Together with like-minded human rights groups and organisations in Austria, the Foundation has taken part in building an Austrian human rights network and in formulating the Catalogue of demands from Austrian non-governmental organisations for the structural establishment of human rights in Austria in 1998. This was subsequently presented to the Austrian government and Chancellor Viktor Klima.

In an intensive interchange between Austrian human rights groups and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, the human rights policy of the Republic of Austria was subject of critical discussion and the demands in the catalogue were presented. Central demands from the catalogue put forward by Austrian human rights NGOs, such as the creation of a human rights committee in parliament, have meanwhile been realized.

Authors of the catalogue of demands of Austrian human rights NGOs briefing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson.	UN High Commissioner for Human or Rights Mary Robinson meeting with representatives of Austrian human rights NGOs.	Presentation of the catalogue of demands of Austrian human rights NGOs to Federal Chancellor Viktor Klima 1998.

HUMAN RIGHTS: NETWORKING AND EDUCATION

Networking of Austrian human rights NGOs in 1997 and 1998 brought results. The Bruno Kreisky Foundation for Human Rights in cooperation with the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution Stadtschlaining (ASPR), with financial support from the chancellory and the ministry of foreign affairs, developed the project Capacity Building. In the course of this project, between 1999 and 2002, more than 30 experts from Austrian human rights NGOs have been trained in international election observation missions and in conflict mediation at ASPR. The graduates of the Capacity Building project are today central to the pool of Austrian experts for international missions.

A pilot project on transnational human rights education was also undertaken in 1997 together with schools from Vienna, Hungary, and Slovakia. In the course of seminars over a number of days, students from the three participating countries met together with human rights experts from various fields in Vienna.

Since 1997, the Foundation has been a member of the Euro- Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), a network of more than 80 human rights organisations from the European Union and the signatory states to the Barcelona Declaration (Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestinian autonomous territories, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Libya as observer). In cooperation with the Bruno Kreisky Foundation for Human Rights, in 2000 a working group on Palestine, Israel and Palestinians of the EMHRN was founded in Athens. Since 2003/2004 four conferences of the working group have been held in Austria, under the chairmanship of the Bruno Kreisky Foundation as primus inter pares. The main aim of the working group is to coordinate the activities of members from the occupied Palestinian areas, Israel, and Europe and to support human rights in both societies and in the conflict zone. The working group has published an annual monitoring report since 2003/2004 on the human rights aspects of relations between the EU and Israel.

Students from Budapest, Trnova and Viennaat a cross boarder seminar on human rights 1997	Participants of the cross boarder seminar in the former living room of Bruno Kreisky.	Members of the Working Group on Palestine, Israel and Palestinians on their way to a meeting in Austria, 2004.

A Human Rights Review of the EU and Israel 2003-04
Relating Commitments to Action
(by Susan Rockwell/Charles Shamas, 2004)
http://www.emhrn.net/pages/75

A Human Rights Review of the EU and Israel 2004-2005
Mainstreaming or Selectively Extinguishing Human Rights?
(by Susan Rockwell/Charles Shamas, 2006)
http://www.emhrn.net/pages/77