Course Details

The course will cover the basics of the international human rights system including various monitoring and enforcement strategies advocates use in different fora, and engage in applied learning. Students will have the opportunity to meet (virtually) with human rights advocates around the world who are working in the areas of gender equality, protection of refugees and displaced persons, and prevention of disability discrimination. Many of the speakers will be engaged in intersectional work to advance rights for persons who hold multiple and complex identities, such as indigenous women with disabilities. One of the objectives of the course will be to encourage students to consider the many ways in which advocates engage human rights discourses to improve the lives of people in their communities and to gain new appreciation for the mechanisms through which human rights law is monitored and implemented at the international and national level. Students will have the opportunity to put what they learn into practice and engage in research projects to support the work of the human rights advocates with whom we meet.