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Course Contents

• Introduction: Human Rights Law, • Int’l Human Rights Treaties , • Application of Human Rights Law, • Erga omnes of Human rights Law, • Jus cogens of Human rights Law • Role of State to fulfill Human Rights Law? • How are human rights protected at international level? • Self-determination, minority and indigenous rights, • Economic, social and cultural rights including the right to development, • Case study: war, occupation, extraordinary rendition and abduction, extraterritorial detention, drone strikes, cyber warfare • Enforcement: responsibility to protect’; UN Security Council action; peace operations/peacekeeping; ‘humanitarian intervention’

Course Synopsis

This course encompasses history, theory and nature of international human rights law. The course strikes a balance in seeking to cover all the main elements of the international normative and institutional system regarding human rights, and a selection of some of the main rights protections, while enabling sufficient detailed coverage.


Universal Declaration of Human Rights (review)

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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

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International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

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International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

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United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

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Book Title : The Global Struggle for Human Rights: Universal Principles in World Politics
Author : Debra L. DeLaet
Edition : First (2006) or second (2015) edition is fine.
Publisher : ThomsonWadsworth Press/Cengage Learning.



Book Title : Conclusion: The Future of Human Rights
Author : Michael Goodhart
Edition :
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Book Title : Politics and Practice
Author : Michael Goodhart
Edition : 2009
Publisher : Oxford: Oxford University Press







Title : Application of Human Rights Treaties Extraterritorially to Detent
Type : Other

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Title : THEORIES OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW1
Type : Other

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Title : Jus Cogen in Human Rights Law
Type : Other

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