International Protection of Human Rights

NEU

About This Course

Part I - The origin of the concept of human rights

1. Fundamentals and origin of the concept of human rights.

2. Historical evolution.

Part II- The internationalization of human rights protection

Part III-International instruments and monitoring system

1. The League of Nations and the United Nations, International instruments and monitoring committees.

2. The International Charter on Human Rights. -Genocide, torture. Women, children and persons with disabilities.

Part IV- The UN treaty-based system.

1. The Human Rights Council.

2. The historical and political foundations of human rights protection.

3. International Relations theories

Part V- The European, American and African systems.

1. The European, American and African systems of protection of human rights.

2. International Humanitarian Law and human rights

Part VI- International criminal Law

1. Nuremberg and Tokyo courts.

2. Ad hoc criminal tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

3. The International Criminal Court.

4. The hybrid criminal courts.

5. Some present day issues.

6. The right to development, the right to peace, the right to sustainable development. Minorities and the rights of indigenous people.

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