Education and awareness-raising
Knowledge about human rights forms the basis for all human rights protection. Information about human rights and human rights education must be accessible to all. Access to justice must be possible for everyone.
Since 2019, the VMR has been offering human rights workshops at secondary schools together with partner organizations. Pupils should learn about human rights and understand how they are protected and can be demanded in Liechtenstein and worldwide. Cooperation with the Commission for the Protection against Violence in recent years has shown that discrimination and bullying among young people is on the rise - especially via social media. The pupils affected suffer massively from the consequences of these forms of exclusion. New tolerance workshops were therefore set up in the last school year. These aim to prevent discrimination and bullying and promote respect, equality and tolerance among young people. Since its launch in 2019, 39 school classes with 641 pupils have taken advantage of the workshops on offer. The great interest in the workshops and the positive feedback from participants are a great motivation for everyone involved. The importance of this offer was acknowledged and appreciated by the VMR through the state's sponsorship award, which made the development of the workshops possible in the first place.
On International Human Rights Day, the VMR and Amnesty International Liechtenstein organize an annual public event on a specific human rights topic. This year, the focus was on artificial intelligence (AI) and human rights. Nina Laukenmann from the University of Basel and Liechtenstein Data Protection Officer Marie-Louise Gächter spoke about regulation and the opportunities and risks of AI for human rights. It became clear that AI as an instrument can both endanger and strengthen human rights. Regulation is needed above all where the use of AI jeopardizes human rights. The EU and the Council of Europe have created an initial legal basis for this. Afterwards, visitors were able to try out artificial intelligence for themselves at various stands. The evening was framed by an AI improvisational theater by the Kreativ Akademie, AI music and art on AI by Satellites of Art.
