Human Rights Leadership Development Course

Introduction

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:

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 sections, 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.

Course Content

Introduction

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

Development of Human Rights Laws

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

The Human Rights Systems

• 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
• Inter-relationship between UDHR, ICCPR & ICECSR
• International Covenant on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights (ICECSR)
• The Geneva Convention
• Regional human rights bodies
• Assignment

Human right in border management

• Life and health of migrants
• Problems relevant to human rights in current practice
• Legal obligations for border management stemming from the international law
• The demands of human and international law rights for the management of External Borders

Border and Migration Management

• Boarder and information solution
• Counter migrant smuggling
• Boarder management and development trade
• Humanitarian boarder management
• Readmission
• Regularization

Training and Education in Human Rights

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

ICT and Human Rights

• Using the Internet for outreach and organizing
• Social networking for human rights
• Incorporating a human rights perspective into ICT Policy
• Assignment

Leadership Skills in Human Rights

• Basic principles of leadership
• The Art of Leadership
• Volunteering as a form of leadership
• Team building/Leadership in Action
• Assignment

IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING

• How to draft an International Human Rights Implementation Plan?
• Identify Available Resources
• Align Strategic Objectives with Resource Availability
• Realistic Objective Allocation (SMART)
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Do, Review, Learn, Apply – (Situation Specific Implementation)