Dear Colleagues,
HREA will be offering a new distance learning course on human rights litigation from
14 February - 7 May 2007. Application deadline for this course is 1 January 2007.
You will find further details below.
Kind regards,
Frank Elbers
Distance Learning Programme, HREA
http://www.hrea. org/courses/
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HREA Distance Learning Course 13E07:
HUMAN RIGHTS LITIGATION
(12 February - 5 May 2007)
Instructors: Margarita Ilieva and Krassimir Kanev
Full details at: http://hrea. org/courses/ 13E.html
Summary:
This distance learning course provides participants with knowledge of the concept, types, venues and strategies of human rights litigation. It focuses on strategic litigation and legal aid both internationally and domestically, and explores a variety of strategies: issue or group oriented litigation, community based services, legal clinics, NGO or law firm resourced actions and others. Participants are familiarised with court ordered structural relief, as well as with conventional
victim-centered legal remedies. Non-litigation strategies to maximise the chances of winning cases and to ensure the effective enforcement of decisions too are considered. The course places impact litigation in its social and institutional context exploring issues of its legitimacy, as well as the ethics and accountability of human rights lawyering. In the last part it highlights litigation for the vindication of several groups of substantive rights, including economic and social rights, freedom from torture, equality and asylum. Participants will be provided with
examples from various jurisdictions in the world illustrating strategic human rights litigation in practice.
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ABOUT HREA
Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) works in partnership with education agencies, NGOs, governments and inter-governmental organisations to implement training programmes for NGO staff, jurists, teachers, and other professionals involved in human rights work. Current and past partners include, inter alia, Amnesty International, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Council of Europe, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, HURIDOCS, the Inter-American Institute for
Human Rights (IIDH), the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Open Society Justice Initiative and UNESCO. HREA is registered as a non-profit organisation in Morocco, the Netherlands and the USA. More information on HREA can be found at: http://www.hrea. org
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