Human Rights Field Work: Law and Practice (LW547)

Human rights field work is a professional exercise engaging law, ethics and more or less settled methodologies. This module will explore this developing area, with focus on such operational contexts as human rights monitoring, analysis, reporting, advocacy, intervention and capacity building. Attention will be made to the measurement of the impact of human rights work and of the related indictors. An examination of the relationship of law, theory and practice will underpin all module content. This module will assist students to relate the academic study of human rights with field work.

Format: The module is comprised of four seminars, each of which will run for three hours. The course is assessed by means of an essay

Semester: 2

ECTS: 5

Lecturer: Dr Anita Ferrara.