Course

Human Rights Fieldwork and Advocacy - JURD7766

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.

Equivalent: LAWS8166

CSS Contribution Charge:   (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

The use of advocacy as a tool to promote human rights law and policy as well as social change is a large and important field. This course will offer students a unique practitioner-based perspective of human rights / humanitarian fieldwork and advocacy. Taught over four days, the course will take the form of a workshop to provide students with knowledge of the various methodologies and approaches to human rights fieldwork and advocacy, including political, legal and ethical considerations. The course will build upon, and offer a practical complement to other courses in the field of human rights social justice and international law. It will interweave the practical considerations in designing and implementing human rights law and policy with examples of various different forms of fieldwork and advocacy ranging from political and diplomatic persuasion to public denunciation to community-based projects to social media. These forms will be highlighted with concrete case studies and in-depth critical analysis and discussion of the deliberations every advocate and practitioner must make. It offers a guide to the different dimensions of human rights and humanitarian work in practice ranging from policy implementation at governmental and intergovernmental levels (at field, regional and HQ levels) to traditional fieldwork and advocacy roles in non-governmental and civil society organisations. Students should ideally have a solid understanding of international human rights law and human rights mechanisms. However, no formal course prerequisites are required.
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