Welcome to the website of the Icelandic Human Rights Center

The purpose and aim of the Centre is to promote human rights by collecting information on and raising awareness of human rights issues in Iceland and abroad. The Centre organises conferences and seminars on human rights and provides human rights education. The Centre promotes legal reform and research on human rights and has established the only specialised human rights library in Iceland. The Centre serves a monitoring role and comments on bills of law and public policy and provides information to international monitoring bodies on the state of human rights in Iceland. The Centre manages EU Progress Programmes for Iceland for 2009-11, hosts the Human Rights Education Project and is a member of AHRI, the Nordic School of Human Rights Research and the UNITED-network.

On our web-site you will find:

- Information about the Icelandic Human Rights Center and its work.

- Information about Human Rights in Iceland.

- Access to information from the Human Rights Education Project.