Course Contents

Conceptual foundations of Human Rights: • Human Rights: Meaning , Definition and significance • Theories of Rights • Milestones of Human Rights  Magna Carta  Bill of Rights  Virginia Declaration of Human Rights  UDHR  European Convention on Human Rights • Human Rights: The West & Islam( Comparison) • Human Rights Protection Pakistan’s response to Human Rights at National and International level: • Fundamental rights under the Constitution of Pakistan (1973) • Aspects of Human Rights  Women Rights  Children Rights  Minorities Rights • Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and role of NGOs • The convention on the Elimination of all forms of discrimination against Women in the National context • Pakistan and the Child Rights Convention • Constitutional provisions relating to the protection of religious minorities • Violations, Issues and Problems

Course Synopsis

The course is designed with basic objective to provide the students/researchers with an understanding about the human rights in general and with reference to Pakistan in particular.

Course Learning Outcomes

By studying this course students would learn the analytical skills which would help them to observe certain phenomena in the area of human rights behaviors and to generalize their observations and experiments.