Participation, citizenship 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 offer tools, from an interdisciplinary perspective, to those who work or wish to work in the defense, promotion, education and research of human rights, with an emphasis on democratic and citizen participation.

Aimed to:

 Graduates of different academic 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 participation, citizenship and human rights will be able to:
  • Work with the fundamental aspects of human rights doctrine and international human rights law.
  • Apply national and international norms that protect the rights associated with participation, citizenship and human rights in activities within their professional field.
  • Analyze the elements of their context that hinder the proper exercise of the right to participation, citizenship and human rights, and identify alternatives for exercising them more effectively.

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:
State, society, the common good, and human rights.
Human rights and democracy.
The right to participation.
Determinants for the exercise of participation.
 
Elective:
Right to the freedom of expression, information and participation.
Reform of the state and political reform.
The environment and human rights.


Face-to-face wrap-up module

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