Individual and Collective Human Rights and Challenges to their Realization
Course 5A of the Monique and Roland Weyl People’s Academy of International Law.
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Thursday, September 19
9 am Pacific, 12 pm Eastern, 4 pm UTC
Interpretation available in English, Spanish, French (Arabic, Portuguese upon request)
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NOTE: This will be a 3-hour course!
Register Now for Course 5A of the People’s Academy of International Law: Individual and Collective Human Rights and Challenges to their Realization on Thursday, September 19.
Faculty for Course 5A:
- Bill Bowring, Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London, UN expert consultant, human rights barrister and scholar
- Curtis Doebbler, Law professor at University of Makeni in Sierra Leone, advisor to NGOs, and human rights attorney in San Antonio, Texas.
- Andrew Reid, International Human Rights practitioner and University of Denver law professor, expert on Indigenous peoples rights and Earth jurisprudence
The program will be moderated by Marjorie Cohn, Dean of the People’s Academy of International Law.
This course will enhance knowledge of international individual and collective human rights as developed through the United Nations system, examine the absence of effective remedies to redress and prevent violations of rights, and discuss practices used by litigators and legal activists to engage with the existing system and open up new possibilities for realization of rights. We will cover individual civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights guaranteed by core UN human rights treaties, such as the right to be free from discrimination. Collective rights, essential to survival and meaningful realization of individual rights, to peace, to self-determination, to development and to a healthy environment, will be addressed, along with the interdependence of individual and collective rights. Faculty will explain the duties of states to respect, protect and fulfill human rights and remedy violations and specific problems of enforcement of rights. Particular attention will be given to state suppression of expressive rights and the rights of association and assembly, protecting rights of refugees and asylum seekers under international law, and the extra-territorial use of domestic law in contravention of international law. We’ll discuss what rights can never be derogated, the duties of states erga omnes and universal jurisdiction. There will be an opportunity for discussion of needed changes to strengthen and ensure implementation and enforcement of all human rights.
The People’s Academy of International Law, which is sponsored by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, seeks to help progressive and anti-imperialist lawyers and human rights defenders globally to marshal the tools of international law to support people’s struggles. Watch past sessions at the People’s Academy website.
Register to be taught by recognized experts in international law, from UN Special Rapporteurs to legal academics to people’s lawyers with decades of experience using international law and legal mechanisms to protect human rights. This course has an anti-imperialist, people and earth-centered view of international law, designed to support practitioners and movements. Course materials and education will be in English, French, Spanish and potentially other languages.
Register and learn more: https://peoplesacademy.n