CEHRI

CEHRI was founded in autumn 2014 as a project run by colleagues and friends, to enable us to work on topics that we personally believe in. We have since increased our membership substantially, enabling us to carry out more pro-bono work... Our mission is to enhance the reality of individuals' human rights through legal means, specifically litigation or legal action. The aim of our litigations is to not only have an immediate effect on the case in question, but has the overarching goal to be of wider societal impact. The benefit of this approach is that action taken on behalf of an individual or a smaller group of victims will - if successful - result in an improvement of the overall situation. This, in turn, brings about sustainable change for victims of human rights abuses in similar situations, or society in general... Since its establishment, CEHRI has been actively involving the University of Vienna on a number projects, with the aim to offer future generations of lawyers the..