Ombudsman Kräuter at the preparatory meeting on the Migration and Refugee Crisis
Goal of the upcoming conference is to shed light on challenges and opportunities of action regarding the current refugee crisis and subsequently adopt a declaration on this urgent matter.
The Austrian Ombudsman Board (AOB), with its function as National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), has the means for protecting and promoting human rights and is hence enforcing an extensive engagement with possible answers to the crisis.
The preparatory meeting was highly productive – the delegations from Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, Belgium and Austria discussed various approaches to tackle the situation on a national and transnational level. At the upcoming conference in November, Ombudsman Kräuter will be keynote speaker on Austria as transit-country and destination for refugees.