Michael Wiener Livres

The authors bring a wealth of expertise in human rights, with Heiner Bielefeldt's experience as a UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief and his academic role at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Michael Wiener contributes his insights from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and his fellowship at Oxford. Their combined backgrounds promise a profound exploration of human rights issues, particularly concerning freedom of religion and belief in contemporary society.

Crypto ’99, the Nineteenth Annual Crypto Conference, was sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and the Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The General Chair, Donald Beaver, was responsible for local organization and registration. The Program Committee considered 167 papers and selected 38 for presentation. This year’s conference program also included two invited lectures. I was pleased to include in the program UeliM aurer’s presentation “Information Theoretic Cryptography” and Martin Hellman’s presentation “The Evolution of Public Key Cryptography.” The program also incorporated the traditional Rump Session for informal short presentations of new results, run by Stuart Haber. These proceedings include the revised versions of the 38 papers accepted by the Program Committee. These papers were selected from all the submissions to the conference based on originality, quality, and relevance to the field of cryptology. Revisions were not checked, and the authors bear full responsibility for the contents of their papers.

Die Frage, welche Maßnahmen die Völkergemeinschaft gegen Intoleranz und Diskriminierung aufgrund von Religion oder Weltanschauung ergreifen kann, stellt sich in jüngster Vergangenheit immer eindringlicher. Die Arbeit behandelt das Mandat des von der UN-Menschenrechtskommission durch Resolution 1986/20 eingesetzten Sonderberichterstatters über Religions- oder Weltanschauungsfreiheit. Die Berichterstattungspraxis im Zeitraum von 1986 bis 2006 (einschließlich der ersten beiden Sitzungen des 2006 gegründeten UN-Menschenrechtsrates) wird unter den Gesichtspunkten der institutionellen, prozeduralen sowie materiellen Rechtsfragen kommentiert. Dabei wird u. a. untersucht, ob Sonderberichterstatter zur Fortentwicklung des Völkergewohnheitsrechts beitragen oder ob ihre veröffentlichten Aussagen zumindest als Rechtserkenntnisquelle bei der Feststellung von Rechtsnormen herangezogen werden können.