Achievement requirements
A good understanding of universal and regional procedures, mechanisms, and institutions in the monitoring of compliance of human rights on the basis of required readings and lectures. A general understanding of the content of selected rights contained within the main international human rights conventions.
Course content
The legal protection of human rights on the international level is a concept that has developed largely since the end of World War II. The United Nations and regional organisations, most notably the Council of Europe, have taken the lead in ensuring respect for human rights through international legal and political mechanisms. This course focuses on the institutions, treaties and practices of these intergovernmental organisations, in addition to international criminal tribunals, providing a perspective of both the normative standards defining international human rights and the means by which they are monitored and implemented.
Reading list
Required reading
HUMR 4110 (10 credits) - Master's level
The reading list includes readings as listed up for the course JUR5710: /studier/emner/jus/jus/JUR5710/h09/pensumliste/
The following parts listed below of the required readings for JUR 5710 and JUR 1710 are not required for HUMR 4110:
- Regional systems - Africa: Reading: Smith, pp. 125-137
- Regional systems - America: Reading: Smith, pp. 109-124
- International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Tribunals: Reading: Smith, 11-14
- United Nations Charter-based System – The Human Rights Council: Reading: Walter Kaelin et.al.: “The Human Rights Council and Country Situations: - - Framework, Challenges and Models” and “Nether Mountain nor Molehill” (for these two reports see course pages 2006 and 2007)