Training & Human Rights Promotion
Legal Education Partnerships
The Academy coordinates and develops Legal Education Partnership projects with academic institutions in countries in Latin America and Europe. It has developed projects in Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Central America, Argentina and Mexico, carried out under the sponsorship of the National Endowment for Democracy, the Swedish NGO Foundation, Netherlands' Cooperation Ministry and USAID, to support local capacity development in the area of International Human Rights Protection within university structures.
Cooperation Agreements
The Academy is continuously negotiating agreements with universities and government agencies throughout the world, especially within the Americas and Europe, to strengthen their knowledge of international human rights law. The main goal of the university agreements is for the Academy to complement the universities’ programs of study. With the government agencies, the agreements allow training opportunities for those public officials involved. These agreements include provisions regarding the participation of visiting professors and the attendance of international students and governmental officials in the Academy Summer Program, the participation of student teams in the Academy’s Inter-American Moot Court Competition, the organization of human rights training courses abroad, and the preparation and publication of training materials, among other publications.
New: Training course: Inter-American and the Universal human rights protection systems
The International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), the American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), will organize the second course on the Inter-American and the Universal human rights protection systems, parallel to the 126th session of the IACHR in Washington DC.
The course on the Inter-American and the Universal Systems for the Protection of Human Rights has been designed to empower NGOs in defining and implementing their strategies in the use of the Inter-American and the UN human rights procedures by bringing active and experienced human rights defenders from the Americas to Washington during the sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), one of the main organs of the inter-American system.
The course will run parallel to the IACHR October Session from October 16-27, 2006 and it will be conducted in Spanish. The deadline to present applications is July 20th. Only electronic applications will be considered. For more information please click here. To download the application, please click here.
