UKC - What is International Human Rights Law?
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What is International Human Rights Law? at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹900 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
What is International Human Rights Law? at FutureLearn Course details
- Examine the nature of international human rights law, asking questions about the history and geography of its evolution and whether its particular history and geography have had an impact on the question of its alleged universality
- Travel through time to examine some of the monumental moments that led to the development of international human rights law
- During week three of this course, discuss the much-claimed universality of human rights; the arguments for and against the idea that human rights law is applicable and relevant to all people in any part of the world
- Examine the history leading up to the adoption of the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and consider the role of state sovereignty, in an attempt to assess universality claims
What is International Human Rights Law? at FutureLearn Curriculum
The Nature of International Human Rights Law
Introduction to the Course
International Human Rights Law in the Current Era
What Constitutes International Human Rights Law?
Human Rights and the State
What Underpins International Human Rights Law?
Wrap Up
History of Human Rights
Where Did Human Rights Come From?
Philosophical Thought and Historical Antecedents
Key Developments in International Law
Wrap Up
Universality of Human Rights
Universality Claims
Antecedents to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Establishment of the UN and the Place of Human Rights
Sovereignty and International Human Rights Law
Wrap Up
Norms, Institutions and Systems
UN Human Rights Standards
UN Human Rights Treaties
UN Commission on Human Rights to the UN Human Rights Council
Regional Systems and Norms
Wrap Up
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