Training
There are numerous workshops and short seminars that can help indroduce students to various aspects of human rights work. Often each has a specific focus. Many take place during the summer but there are programs that run during the academic year. These issue-based workshops are excellent opportunities to interact with human rights specialists. The sample below is not exhaustive but a place to begin looking.
Measuring Justice: Justice Sector Evaluation & Human rights
Date: Friday 26th June 2009
Venue: National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
The International Human Rights Network's Measuring justice conference is a priority for a wide range of individuals and institutions. It is central to enhancing good governance including rule of law, combating corruption, addressing impunity and building effective, sustainable and accountable justice sector reform. The purpose of this IHRN conference is to facilitate the pooling of evaluation experience, to identify best practice and lessons for the future, with particular reference to measuring human rights impact.
Call for Papers & registration details at www.ihrnetwork.org/international-conference-2009_231.htm
Justice Sector Reform: Applying Human Rights Based Approaches
Dates: Sunday 21st June – Friday 26th June 2009
Venue: National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
The aim of this annual IHRN training programme is to enhance skills of participants in applying Human Rights Based Approaches to Justice Sector Reform.
Deadline: priority for applications received by 3 April 2009. The programme includes participation in the international conference Measuring Justice. Application form and further information at: www.ihrnetwork.org/programmes-2009_203.htm
Human Rights Fieldwork - Principles, Strategies and Skills
Dates: Sunday 31 May – Saturday 6th June 2009
Venue: National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
The aims of this annual IHRN training programme are to explore the principles underpinning effective human rights fieldwork, enhance the skills of participants needed to carry this out safely before/during/after armed conflict, ensure that human rights fieldwork is relevant, effective, sustainable, participatory and accountable and raise participants’ self-awareness of skills required to undertake international human rights fieldwork. The training programme is intended for development and humanitarian aid workers, civilian/military peace-keepers, NGO and IGO field staff.
Application form and further information at: www.ihrnetwork.org/programmes-2009_203.htm
Centre for Women's Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Dates: May 25-29, 2009
Venue: University of Toronto
All the sessions stress the multiplicity of the forms of discrimination women from diverse situations experience. The week is designed to provide participants with a better understanding of the principles of non discrimination and equality as enshrined in this Convention and each State’s obligation to respect, protect and fulfill women’s human rights. Participants will be helped to frame whatever issues they are working on within a human right’s framework from a gender perspective. During the week we will have activities around identity and interconnectedness, the complex nature of discrimination, the impact of culture and religion on women’s rights, and activism against discrimination.
Further information at: http://www1.oise.utoronto.ca/cwse/
Building a Peaceful World in an Era of Globalization
Dates: May 4- June 5, 2009
Venue:International Women's Rights Education Institute, University of Toronto
Five Week Women's Human Rights Education Institute: May 4-June 5, 2009 In today’s environment of rising fundamentalism, disregard for human rights, ecological and economic devastation, and the aggressive use of force we are faced with major challenges in practice. There is an urgent need for broad transformative approaches, supported by increasing clarity of analysis and vision and effective practical skills. Participants will learn how to deliver Human Rights education and to work for women's human rights in their own country, with an increased awareness of varied international strategies and exposure to diverse local and national contexts. Further information at:
Building a Peaceful World in an Era of Globalization
Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights Training School
Dates: June 20-27, 2009 or Spring and Fall semesters
Venues: The 20th International Summer School on Human Rights and the Human Rights Workshops for Students in Poland. Training includes lectures on the history and philosophy of human rights, institutions, and national and international legal instruments.
International Human Rights Academy
Dates: October 17-31, 2009
Venues: Cape town, The Republic of South Africa
The International Human Rights Academy offers a session of intensive human rights courses, organized every year in South Africa and in Europe under the auspices of the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University (Belgium), the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University (The Netherlands), the Faculty of Law of University of the Western Cape (South Africa) and the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations (IFHHRO).
International Human Rights Internship Program (IHRIP)
The International Human Rights Internship Program facilitates and supports professional-development projects for staffs of human rights organizations in countries of South and East Central Europe and the former Soviet Republics. The training occurs in different formats, but each involves an exchange of experience between countries.
International Human Rights Training Program, Canadian Human Rights Foundation
Programs in Montréal, Canada, consisting of interactive coursework relating to participants' field-based knowledge and experience.
New Tactics in Human Rights Project's Asia Regional Training Workshop
The New Tactics in Human Rights Project’s Regional Training Workshop is an initiative to engage innovative human rights practitioners in sharing and developing ideas, practices, knowledge and skills to further the effectiveness of efforts to advance human rights. Also see the online dialogues offered by New Tactics.