Course Curriculum

• Introduction to Human Rights

  • Understanding human rights
    30 min
  • Human rights and human security
    30 min
  • History and philosophy of human rights
    30 min
  • Concept and nature of human rights
    30 min
  • Human rights standards at the universal level
    30 min
  • Implementation of universal human rights instruments
    30 min
  • Human rights and civil society
    30 min
  • Assignment 1
    Unlimited Time

• The Fundamentals of Human Rights Systems

  • Introduction
    30 min
  • Rights / entitlements
    30 min
  • Obligations / commitments
    30 min
  • Accountability mechanisms
    30 min
  • Assignment 2
    Unlimited Time

• Fundamental Human Rights Principles

  • Sources of human rights
    30 min
  • Customary international law
    30 min
  • General practice
    30 min
  • Opinio luris
    30 min
  • Ius cogens
    30 min
  • Human rights as the guarantor of human dignity
    30 min
  • Implementing human rights
    30 min
  • The requirement of legality
    30 min
  • The rule of law
    30 min
  • The right to an effective remedy
    30 min
  • Retrospectivity
    30 min
  • Assignment 3
    Unlimited Time

• Human Rights of Women

  • Introduction
    30 min
  • Gender and the widespread misconception of human rights of women
    30 min
  • Historical overview of the rights of women
    30 min
  • Women and poverty
    30 min
  • Women and health
    30 min
  • Women and violence
    30 min
  • Women and armed conflict
    30 min
  • Intercultural perspectives and controversial issues
    30 min
  • Implementation and monitoring of human rights of women
    30 min
  • Assignment 4
    Unlimited Time

• The Rights of the Child

  • The struggle to protect the rights of the child
    30 min
  • Child rights and human/child security
    30 min
  • The nature and content of the human rights of children
    30 min
  • Principal concepts of the convention on the rights of the child
    30 min
  • Intercultural perspectives and controversial issues
    30 min
  • Implementation and monitoring of the human rights of the child
    30 min
  • Assignment 5
    Unlimited Time

• Human Rights Standards and Security

  • The right to life
    30 min
  • The absolute prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, and punishment
    30 min
  • The rule of law and the rights to a fair trial
    30 min
  • Assignment 6
    Unlimited Time

• Human Rights and the Guarantee of Democratic Pluralism

  • Freedom of expression
    30 min
  • Implementation and monitoring of freedom of expression
    30 min
  • Freedom of association and the right to peaceful assembly
    30 min
  • Assignment 7
    Unlimited Time

• The General Application of Human Rights: How Human Rights Work

  • Civil and political rights
    30 min
  • Restricting rights
    30 min
  • Economic and social rights
    30 min
  • Assignment 8
    Unlimited Time

• Final Assessment

  • HRSJ Final Assessment
    Unlimited Time