Elisabeth Steiner

Elisabeth Steiner is an Austrian jurist a former Judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Steiner was admitted to Austrian Bar in December 1987 and established legal practice in Vienna in January 1988.

Between March 1999 and October 2001 she acted for some 80,000 former slave and forced laborers from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, which involved extensive fact-finding missions to those countries.

She achieved a remarkable success as she obtained reparation for tens of thousands of forced laborers during World War II.

Judge Steiner places an emphasis on women's rights and maintains contacts with women's rights organizations in China, Nigeria, Bhutan, Nepal, Morocco, Sierra Leone, Algeria, Belarus and Ukraine.