[eccr] United Nations Human Rights System Distance Learning Programme

>CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
>
>Distance education course
>"THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM"
>(23 February-18 May 2005)
>
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>HREA is calling for applications for a new HREA distance learning course:
>"The United Nations Human Rights System". The course will be offered from
>February-May 2004. Course instructor is Dr. Gerd Oberleitner.
>
>Please note that the registration deadline for this course is 15 December.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Diana Hughes
>Distance Learning Programme, HREA
>http://www.hrea.org/courses
>
>
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>Costs
>
>The course tuition fee is ¤ 525 (tuition for auditors             is ¤ 200).
>
>Application
>
>The deadline for applications is 15 December 2004 . Applications
>received after that day unfortunately cannot be accepted. Please
>note, however, that applications will be accepted on a
>first-come-first-serve basis. Successful applicants will be notified
>at the latest by 31 December 2004. Full tuition payment is due on 15
>January 2005. Unfortunately, there are no scholarships available for
>this course.
>
>
>
>HREA Distance Learning Course 10E05:
>THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM
>23 February-18 May 2005
>Instructor: Gerd Oberleitner
>
>This will be the first-ever "real-time" distance learning course on the
>United Nations (UN) human rights system. The aim of the course is to
>provide information on the UN human rights system by looking at the work
>and outcome of the UN Commission on Human Rights. The course is scheduled
>parallel to the 61st session of the Commission in March-April 2005. By
>making extensive use of the Commission's website -- which contains legal
>documents, press releases, and audio and video files on the session, and
>is updated daily -- course participants will be able to learn about the
>UN's human rights activities as they present themselves to the world: in
>real-time, with immediate access to the original material, live and uncut,
>and with all the dramatic twists and turns a session of the Commission
>offers. The course will expose students to the real world of human rights
>in the making and offer them a glimpse into the world of human rights
>diplomacy on the highest possible level. An experienced course instructor
>will guide the participants through the Commission's session so as to
>ensure a learning experience on a high academic level.
>
>The course will provide a brief introduction to the UN human rights
>system, the core UN human rights standards and supervisory machineries,
>the charter- and treaty-based system of human rights protection, the role
>of the UN Commission on Human Rights, the Subcommission on the Protection
>and Promotion of Human Rights, ECOSOC, General Assembly and Security
>Council.  Special focus will be put on the history, mandate and
>composition of the Commission, its legal and political characteristics,
>and the role of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
>This will enable students to follow the deliberations of the Commission
>and understand the events as they unfold. Relevant on-line teaching
>material to this end will be provided.
>
>During the six weeks of the Commission's session, participants will be
>asked to follow the meetings of the Commission, focus on specific issues,
>read the relevant materials as they appear on the website and as
>recommended by the course facilitator (press releases, reports of Special
>Rapporteurs, resolutions, statements by dignitaries, etc.), analyse the
>performance of the actors and stakeholders in the session, evaluate the
>voting procedure, and form their own opinion on the work of the
>Commission.  The course is intended to provide participants with the
>necessary skills to understand in-depth how multi-lateral human rights
>bodies function in their manifold capacity as law-making institutions,
>fora for discussions and reflection, and adjucators of states' human
>rights performance.  Participants will learn how law, policy and diplomacy
>come together and interact in the field of human rights.
>
>The course facilitator will provide information in form of on-line
>material and "mini-lectures" in the first three weeks of the course
>preceding the Commission's session. He will guide participants through the
>session, recommend readings and will comment on the events. During the
>course NGO-staff, staff of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for
>Human Rights and staff of diplomatic missions will be available to
>participants in Q&A sessions or Internet-chats.
>
>Application deadline: 15 December 2004
>
>A more detailed course description, course outline, information about the
>course instructor and application forms can be found at:
>http://www.hrea.org/courses/10E.html
>
>
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>
>ABOUT HREA's DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMME
>
>HREA's Distance Learning Programme (DLP) was initiated in 2000 in response
>to an unaddressed need for the continuing education of human rights
>professionals and practitioners. The programme builds on HREA's extensive
>experience in both the training of professionals (advocates, educators,
>development workers) and the use of the new information technologies to
>provide resources and to network human rights advocates and educators. By
>offering short, practical yet specialised courses via distance learning
>barriers that prevent many practitioners from participating in continuing
>education -- such as a lack of time and/or lack of funds to participate in
>regional or national workshops/trainings -- can be overcome. HREA annually
>organises distance learning courses on human rights monitoring; research &
>evaluation in the NGO sector; project development and management; use of
>information and communication technologies (ICTs) for human rights work;
>rights-based programming; and human rights advocacy (in English, Arabic
>and Russian). For more information about the DLP, please visit:
>http://www.hrea.org/DLP/
>
>
>ABOUT HREA
>
>Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international
>non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the
>training of activists and professionals; the development of educational
>materials and programming; and community-building through on-line
>technologies. HREA works in partnership with education agencies, NGOs,
>governments and inter-governmental organisations to implement training
>programmes for NGO staff, jurists, teachers, and other professionals
>involved in human rights work. Current and past partners include, inter
>alia, Amnesty International, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies,
>Council of Europe, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, HURIDOCS, the
>Inter-American Institute for Human Rights (IIDH), the Office of the UN
>High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Open Society Institute and UNESCO.
>HREA is registered as a non-profit organisation in the Netherlands and the
>USA. More information on HREA can be found at: http://www.hrea.org

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