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HUMAN RIGHTS DISTANCE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES |
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Course Description (PDF format) Syllabus (PDF format) FAQ (PDF format) |
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Students
and faculty are invited to use critical thinking exercises for individual
learning, collaborative problem solving assignments for student teams, and
conferencing tools for international education online. THRO is a project of the Urban Morgan
Institute for Human Rights directed by Howard Tolley, Jr. at the University
of Cincinnati. |
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This course will help you develop the skills of conducting and reporting impartial and accurate research into human rights abuses. It will be of benefit to anybody in NGOs and other groups promoting rights-based advocacy or seeking to defend human rights. It is part of Learning for Change, an integrated collection of courses developed by Fahamu in conjunction with the University of Oxford. Fahamu |
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The Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University offers the Internet Course on the International Protection of Human Rights in the Autumn 2001. The course is the result of Finnish-Baltic co- operation between the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University (Finland), the Faculty of Law at Tartu University (Estonia), Institute of Human Rights at University of Latvia, Faculty of Law at Vilnius University (Lithuania) and the Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights/ Law University of Lithuania. Participants are expected to be familiar with legal concepts. The language of instruction is English and the course is worth 6 ECTS. Those who successfully complete the course will be awarded a Diploma. The course is IT-based and builds upon both independent and group study. The number of participants is limited to 10 participants from each partner university. For further information on the course, please contact your university listed below: Finland:
Lithuania: |
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Organised by Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) with financial support from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Constitutional Legal Policy Institute (COLPI). Human
rights activists and educators will be introduced to the fundamentals of
research design, qualitative and quantitative methods, data collection and
applications for improving programming. Learners will participate in
exercises to develop basic research skills, analyse research studies, and
will practise designing a research or evaluation project. Course participants
will also become better "consumers" of such studies. Participants
are encouraged to come to the course with a research or evaluation project idea
that can be developed within the course. |
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Organised by Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) with financial support from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Constitutional Legal Policy Institute (COLPI). Human rights activists will be introduced to proven methods of advocating human rights at the local, national, regional and international levels. Students will become equipped with the skills and tools to design and implement effective advocacy campaigns. Participants are expected to come to the course with ideas about advocacy projects that they would like to implement with their organisation. In addition to the required reading, interim and final assignments and group discussions, there will be presentations by representatives of international and regional human rights organisations (e.g. Amnesty International, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights). The
courses are intended for staff members of human rights/social justice
organisations. Participants should have a good written command of English
(any proof, e.g. certificate, diploma of English language proficiency should
be enclosed with the application) and have high competence and comfort with
computer and Internet use. The number of participants is limited to 25 per
course. HREA aims to ensure equal gender and geographical distribution across
the selected participants. |
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