This course provides
a comprehensive grounding in all aspects
of Human Rights and Civil Liberties:
International humanitarian issues, refugee
rights and laws, disaster and emergency
relief, apartheid and racial discrimination,
drug abuse, judicial activism, and global and
regional perspectives of human rights.
The subjects include:
- Conceptual and theoretical understanding
of Human Rights and Civil Liberties;
- Systems, organizations, and instruments
of Human Rights and Civil Liberties;
- Contemporary Human Rights situations
and issues;
- Specialization course, such as:
- Activism and roles of NGOs,
Amnesty International, and the Red
Cross, as well as Rights of the Child
and Human Rights;
- Women and Human Rights,
Religion and Human Rights,
Population and Human Rights;
- Legislation-specific themes in
Human Rights: International,
Regional and National Human
Rights Provisions;
- Violation-specific themes in Human
Rights: Custodial Violence
and Disappearances; Pretrial
Detention, Undertrials and Prisoners;
Human Rights and Police; Human
Rights during emergency;
- Refugee-specific themes in Human
Rights: Refugee Laws; Refugee
Protections; Refugee Status and
Humanitarian Assistance; Refugee
Problems in Lebanon; and
- Awareness, Teaching, Research,
and Implementation: Human Rights
education, Teaching and Training;
Human Rights and Peace, Non-violence, and Conflict Resolution;
Implementing Human Rights
Standards and Required Legal Aid;
Remedies and Reforms; Role of the
Judiciary, Public Interest Litigation
and Media.
Language of Instruction: English (legal terms,
however, are also given in Arabic and French).