Human Rights Defender - JURD7386
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 7
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.
Excluded: LAWS3186
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
The Australian Human Rights Centre is a multidisciplinary research centre and our contributors are economists, lawyers, sociologists and philosophers as well as human rights workers, artists and writers. We publish the work of established writers and artists as well as students. Our intention is to provide information and comment on a broad range of current issues in human rights and to be newsworthy and relevant.
The Defender highlights issues not always covered in mainstream media and other human rights publications. We seek to appeal to all those with an interest in and commitment to human rights and, in particular, to bring together individuals and organisations involved in human rights advocacy and education.
Interns are required to attend at the Centre for the equivalent of one day each week over the session, and to undertake additional work in libraries and elsewhere on a flexible basis arranged individually with each intern. Interns are closely involved in the editing process of each issue of the Defender.
- Have developed an appreciation for the professional and personal responsibilities associated with the publishing of a human rights publication.
- Undertake self-management by completing activities, such as editing articles and liaising with contributors, associated with the position to a high standard and within deadlines.
- Demonstrate effective oral communication skills by successfully liaising with contributors in a persuasive and appropriate manner to meet publication deadlines.
- Improve written communication skills by completing an article appropriate to the theme of the Human Rights Defender edition or other written material that may or may not appear in the edition.
- Communicate effectively, in speaking and in writing.