Human Rights Cen­tre (MRZ)

The Men­schen­Recht­sZen­trum (MRZ) was born out of neces­si­ty. It was, and still is, about giv­ing the var­i­ous orga­ni­za­tions involved in human rights in Karl­sruhe a place where they can work. At the same time, the coop­er­a­tion between these orga­ni­za­tions should be strength­ened and lob­by­ing for human rights should be done.

The Karl­sruhe Human Rights Cen­ter (MRZ) was found­ed in 1996 as a joint ini­tia­tive of var­i­ous human rights and refugee aid orga­ni­za­tions and is run on a vol­un­tary basis by com­mit­ted cit­i­zens. The idea was to pro­vide a com­mon roof for the human rights orga­ni­za­tions locat­ed in Karl­sruhe. Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the par­tic­i­pat­ing asso­ci­a­tions found­ed their own non-prof­it asso­ci­a­tion, the “Men­schen­recht­szen­trum Karl­sruhe e. V.”, which is respon­si­ble for the oper­a­tion and orga­ni­za­tion of the cen­ter, but which also orga­nizes its own events, sem­i­nars and pub­lic rela­tions work.