Academy on Human Rights & Humanitarian Law

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HUMAN RIGHTS COURSES


May 26 - June 13, 2008
The 2008 Specialized Summer Program of the Academy will offers 10 courses in English and 7 in Spanish which can be taken for Academic Credit, a Diploma or a Certificate of Attendance. Below are the readings for the first two sessions of these courses. If you are having trouble opening the pdf documents, please follow these instructions: You should be able to open the documents if you are using Adobe pdf version 7.0. If not you can download the 8.0 version from the ADOBE PDF website. You can also right click on the document and choose "save target as" and save the document within the pdf version you are using ("save as type"). Then you can print it.

COURSES IN ENGLISH : Course Schedule European Human Rights Law (2 credits) 8:30 a.m - 10:20 a.m. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2 credits) 8:30 a.m - 10:20 a.m. Terrorism & Human Rights (2 credits) 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. International Humanitarian Law (2 credits) 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. Regional Approaches to Human Rights Law: Africa, America & Asia (2 credits) 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. United Nations Human Rights System (2 credits) 2:30 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. Women & International Human Rights Law (2 credits) 2:30 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. Election Observation & the Right to Political Participation (1 credit) 4:30 p.m. - 6:20 p.m.*New dates are: May 27 - June 4 International Justice For Human Rights Violations (2 credits) 4:30 p.m. - 6:20 p.m. Human Rights & Development (2 credits) 4:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. COURSES IN SPANISH : Course Schedule International Humanitarian Law (1 credit) 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. Women and International Human Rights Law (1 credit) 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. United Nations Human Rights System (2 credits) 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. Inter-American Human Rights Law (2 credits) 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. Litigation & Activism in Human Rights (2 credits) 2:30 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. Implementation of Human Rights in Domestic Law (2 credits) 4:30 p.m. - 6:20 p.m. Impunity & International Justice (2 credits) 4:30 p.m. - 6:20 p.m.

Time	Course	Syllabi	Day 1	Day 2
8:30 - 10:20 a.m.	European Human Rights Law	Syllabus
8:30 - 10:20 a.m.	Economic, Social & Cultural Rights	Syllabus	Reading No.1 - Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - A Universal Challenge Reading No.2 - International Covenant	Reading No.1 - Chapter 5 - Intl HR in Context Reading No.2 - General Comment No. 3 Reading No.3 - Limburg Principles
10:30 - a.m.12:20 p.m.	Terrorism & Human Rights	Syllabus	Reading No.1 Nature and Sources of International Criminal Law	Reading No.1 Section 1 Terrorism - The Problems of Definitions Reading No.2 Section 2 The Multilateral Legal Framework Additional Readings
10:30 a.m.- 12:20 p.m.	International Humanitarian Law	Syllabus	Reading No.1 - Vol 1- Chapter 1- Historic Development of the Law p.p.- 3-20 and 30-50	Reading No.1 - Military Necessity and the Principle of Humanity pp 59-88 Reading No.2 - Scope of Application of IHL during armed conflicts pp. 120-136 Reading No.3 - Characterization and Aplication of IHL in Non-international conflicts pp. 1-6
10:30 am. - 12:30 p.m.	Regional Approaches to Human Rights Law	Syllabus	Reading No.1 Legal Personality of Individuals as subject of International Law Reading No.2 The Humanization of Consular Law Reading No.3 IACHR at a Crossroads Reading No. 4 The Case-Law of the IACHR	Reading No. 1The Development of Int'l Human Rights Law by the Operation and the Case-Law of the ECHR and IACHR Reading No.2 Approximations and Convergences in the case law of the European and Interamerican Court of Human Rights
	Regional Approaches to Human Rights Law - T. Kumar readings		June 4th Readings: Reading No. 1: In Search of the Rights Track Reading No. 2: Human Rights Monitoring in the Asia Pacific Region June 5th Readings: Reading No. 1: ASEAN Charter Reading No. 2: Report of the Eminent Persons Group	June 6th Readings: Reading No. 1: United Nations and National Human Rights Institutions Reading No. 2: The Asia Pacific Forum
2:30 - 4:20 p.m.	Women & International Human Rights Law	Syllabus	Reading No.1 - Andrew Byrnes - The Convention on the Eliminination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women Reading No.2 - Rebecca J. Cook - Reservation to teh Convnetion on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women Reading No.3 - Sandra Fredman - Beyond the Dichotomy of Formal and Substantive Equality - Towards a New Definition of Equal Rigths	Reading No.1 - Claire LHeureux-Dube - Beyond the Myths - Equality Impartiality and Justice Reading No.2 - K Anthony Appiah - Stereotypes and the Shaping of Identity Reading No.3 - David Gans - Stereotyping and Difference - Planned Parenthood v Casey and the future of Sex Discrimination Law Reading No.4 - Maria Eugenia Morales de Sierra v Guatemala - Case 11.625 Reading No.5 - Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan
2:30 - 4:20 p.m.	United Nations Human Rights System		Reading No.1 - Universal Declaration book - pages 3-25 and 41-73	Reading No.1 - Universal Declaration book - pages 701-723 Reading No.2 - Monitoring Mechanisms pages 381 - 390
4:30 - 6:20 p.m.	Election Observation and the Right to Political Participation	Syllabus	Reading No.1- Key provisions regarding to participation contained in international human rights instruments Reading No.2 - Human Rights Committee - General Comment No. 25 Reading No.3 - Greg Fox - The Right to Political Participation in International Law Reading No.4 - A. Keyser - The Right to Vote	Reading No.1 - Sauve v. Attorney General of Canada et al. Reading No.2 - August and another v. Electoral Commissions and others - Constitutional Court of South Africa Reading No.3 - New National Party of South Africa v. Government of the Republic of South Africa Reading No.4 - Guy Goodwin Gill - Free and Fair Election Reading No.5 - NDI - An Assessment of the Senegalese Electoral Code Reading No.6 - J. Brian Atwood - Reflections on the Transitions
4:30 p.m. - 6:20 p.m.	International Justice for Human Rights Violations	Syllabus	Reading No. 1 Bombing.allies.WW.II Reading No. 2 Gulag.Trib.Marrus1.4.04 Reading No.3 Mutua.Nberg.00 Reading No. 4 Nuremberg.Cassel.1995 Reading No. 5 Nurnberg.Jackson.open.excerpts Reading No. 6 Nurnberg.judg.edit3.word5	Reading No.1 AI.NATO.Kosovo Reading No.2 GenevaProtI77.edit Reading No. 3 Hague IV.1907.annot Reading No. 4 ICTY.ProsRep.NATO6.6.2000.editTV
4:30 - 7:15 p.m.	International Human Rights and Development	Syllabus	Reading No.1 - Peter Uvin - Human Rights and Development Reading No.2 - Human Rights and Development Report 2000	Reading No. 1 - Jack Donnelly - Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice Reading No.2 - Pathologies of Power

May 26 - June 13, 2008