Security and human rights (Online)

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Promoting and defending human rights is everyone's job.

Certification course with a duration of 240 hours in mixed mode (classroom / virtual)

Objetive:

 To address human security and human rights; the right to human security in its multiple dimensions and the complex issues that affect its effective exercise, as well as the theoretical basis and interdisciplinary tools to promote the right of each person to live free of fear and misery.

Aimed to:

 Graduates of different disciplines, electoral officials, political party leaders, leaders of community and youth organizations, local and state public officials, and educators, who work or wish to work in the defense, promotion, education or research of human rights, in both public institutions and civil society.

By the end of the program:
Participants in the certification course in human security and human rights will be able to:
  • Analyze the relationship between the concept of human security and the framework of international human rights law.
  • Understand the specific implications of the phenomenon of violence and insecurity at the social level.
  • Contextualize the right to human security within the rule of law and the democratic system, with a special analysis of the position of victims of crime in accordance with international norms.
  • Analyze the topic of public policies related to security issues and their relevance for achieving effective protection of the rights of the human person.

Course content:

 Initial classroom module includes:

Fundamentals and historical development of human rights; international human rights law and domestic law; human rights protection systems; and introduction to distance learning.

Virtual block:

Specific courses:
Framework: human rights and security.
Human security and human development.
Rule of law, democracy and security.
Public policies and public security.
 
Elective:
Violence, insecurity and human rights.
Inequality, poverty and human rights.

Face-to-face wrap-up module

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