Building upon skills acquired in the first term, this course deepens the students’ understanding of the human rights of specific groups and selected human rights from a multidisciplinary perspective. These include, for example, children’s rights, the right to life, to personal liberty, to privacy, to equality and non-discrimination, to health, to education, as well as freedom of the arts.

Students will learn about these rights in the framework of international and regional legal protection, analyse key historical developments and main challenges to their successful protection and implementation.

For their assessment, students will be asked to present a selected human right or a specific group, prepare a presentation and short paper.

Course dates:

15 March, 09.15-17.00

19 April, 09.15 - 17.00

3 May, 13.30 - 18.00

15 June, 10.15 - 18.00

Presentation of a paper topic, as well as submission and presentation of a paper (up to six pages) and active participation in the discussion of all papers.

1.) All Human Rights for All – Vienna Manual on Human Rights: http://www.nwv.at/studienliteratur/963_all_human_rights_for_all/

2.) Blackstone's International Human Rights Documents, 12th Edition, Alison Bisset (ed.): https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/blackstones-international-human-rights-documents-9780198860921?cc=it&lang=en&