Law Minor (Level 3)
Law Single Honours (Level 3)
The post-World War 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights', marked an unprecedented international commitment to human rights. However over the past sixty years the international community has witnessed gross violations of human rights, reflected by an inconsistency and inequality in recognition and enforcement of human rights. In this module we shall critically examine both the nature of 'universal' human rights and the 'international' community that claims to protect them.
Distinctively we shall actively consider the increasing lobby from civil society towards new human rights covenants, recognising those excluded from the 'universal' being women, racial, ethnic, linguistic minorities, lesbian and gay persons, disabled persons and 'non' citizens, most prominent in the current refugee and asylum seeker issues.
This module provides the distinct opportunity for students to virtually engage with international NGOs working on such issues above, to prepare and contribute to a research project, developing their knowledge, skills and networks within the international human rights community.
identify and interpret the ways in which international attitudes towards, and conceptions of, human rights have evolved since the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; will be achieved by assessments: 1
discern and critique examples of international inequality and global change as contexts within which to consider human rights guarantees; will be achieved by assessments: 1
independently investigate and study human rights issues and audit legal responses thereto
will be achieved by assessments: 1
tutorial preparation = 36 hours
group presentation = 10 hours
background reading and essay preparation = 86 hours
Total = 150 hours
total = 150 hours
An independently researched and written paper on one of the topics encountered in the module
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