Human Rights Leadership Development

This course aims to develop a comprehensive experience of human rights learning by equipping potential human rights educators, advocates, activists, students, volunteers, and law enforcement officers with knowledge and skills to:

• Integrate knowledge in the fields of politics, economics, cultural diversity, gender issues and socio-psychology in the context of human rights.
• Strategize training and methodology required for promoting human rights education in various countries across all sectors of the society.
• To explore the specificities and points of commonality of the non-formal and the formal education contexts in relation to human rights learning.
• To establish a global network of trainers on human rights education.

The program will further equip participants with skills for better understanding of the concepts of human rights learning and leadership development. This course will also provide the participants with a concrete ‘step-by-step’ approach including hints and guidelines for developing and implementing a successful human rights project in their organization and communities. The programme will consist of 6 different modules, discussion and empowerment session each of which is geared towards helping the participants understand and internalize the Human Rights learning approach to development. Furthermore by creating a learning environment that caters for their specific needs it is expected that the participants will be empowered to emerge as human rights educators themselves. The programme will give participants creative, concrete knowledge of how to use international and regional human rights treaties and enforcement mechanisms in their work for the protection and promotion of human rights.

The course is aimed at human rights educators, advocates, activists, law enforcement officers, lawyers, women activists, programs managers, research officers, leaders and members of coalitions and networks, staff of NGOs and CBOs, donor agency program officers, volunteers, development actors, trainers, students, Ministry of Justice officials, government officials etc. Furthermore, every opportunity will be taken for joint learning events for participants and GHRLTI staff. Candidates should have a good written command of English language and high competence and comfort with computer and Internet usage.

The overall objective of this course is to provide participants with an introduction to the concept of human rights, design and implementation of successful human rights learning in their organisation and communities. Participants will be empowered to advocate for their basic, human rights and develop leadership skills. The course can be used to establish or strengthen human rights policies and practices both in the public and private sector.

• Introduction to human rights
• Historical overview of human rights development
• The Concepts in human rights
• Developments in human rights
• Assignment

• The sources of international law
• International human rights law
• Public international law
• International humanitarian law
• Enforcement of human rights law
• Assignment

• The United Nations and human rights
• Major United Nations human rights instruments
• Introduction to the United Nations system
• United Nations human rights agencies and procedures
• Regional human rights bodies
• Assignment

• The concept of training
• Facilitation and training skills
• Facilitating human rights education
• Training for sustainable business model
• Taking action for human rights
• Assignment

• Using the Internet for outreach and organizing
• Social networking for human rights
• Incorporating a human rights perspective into ICT Policy
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• Basic principles of leadership
• The Art of Leadership
• Volunteering as a form of leadership
• Team building/Leadership in Action
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• Final evaluation
• Participants Evaluation of Course/Feedback
• Conclusion