Human Rights in Practice

The course provides an introduction to international human rights law in the UN and regional human rights systems in Europa, Africa, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific, and to the institutions, mechanisms and procedure developed over the past 75 years to promote and protect human rights globally. Invited individual experts from these institutions will give guest lectures and keynote inputs and discuss legal and policy issues on current selected human rights topics, so as to allow participants to encounter the practice and challenges of human rights promotion and protection worldwide. 

Participants will learn about international human rights in the UN and regional human rights system, human rights standards, procedures, institutions and mechanisms, and discuss human rights law and policy with selected experts and practioners. They will gain competences in analysing and understanding current human rights problems and the role of global and regional human rights institutions and human rights diplomacy. Furthermore, participants will learn about working practices and procedures of relevant institutions and will get the possibility to get first hand information about careers in the field of human rights.

Registration: via Uni Graz Online