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The principal institutions facilitating this phenomenon such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, have often been accused of keeping human rights issues out of their respective domains.

Business Corporations also have been accused of undermining human rights, and at times even being complicit in gross violations. An important feature of globalization is its nexus with development policies in our contemporary world, including the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals, development aid, regulation of infectious diseases, movement of people etc. The world is in its biggest recession since the Great Depression.

Already fragile countries and communities heavily in debt or suffering from armed conflicts are on the verge of unraveling into chaos. Millions of people in various regions of the world have lost their livelihoods. It is clear that the harshest impacts have been on the poorest and most vulnerable; yet the biggest casualty has been international solidarity at a time when it is most needed.

This pandemic has exposed the massive fault lines along the already complex and tenuous interface between globalization and human rights. The critical challenge facing the present world order, therefore, lies in ensuring that the vehicles of globalization are oriented towards development and promotion of human rights, through appropriate laws and policies, including during and in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic.

This course will introduce students to the major themes and debates concerning these different linkages between globalization and human rights and explore the new streams of critique that have enabled a confluence as well as a questioning of the globalization-human rights interface.

This course introduces students to the methodology and basic techniques of human rights field work used by practitioners, whether working with the United Nations, other inter-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions, or non-governmental organisations. Students will gain the necessary skills required in human rights reporting, monitoring, fact-finding and advocacy, with a particular focus on being able to engage on the most serious human rights violations.

Students will also learn about the strategic uses of reporting in a range of settings, including in human rights advocacy, policy making, and monitoring situations. The course is hands-on and will be chiefly based on practical exercises and realistic scenarios of human rights situations of concern. He also served in U. Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons.

The course will explore how diplomacy is governed and how it has evolved and continuous to evolve in an often-complex environment. The diplomatic practices of states change and shape the world around us. The course will begin by analyzing the birth and development of international relations and the role of diplomacy, the efforts in building a durable international system anchored in a rules base framework, and the role of international law in cementing such system.

We shall also consider what elements makes diplomacy effective and their usefulness today, such as negotiation and public diplomacy. The course will examine the interaction between international law and diplomacy, and the crucial system of treaty making, with emphasis on the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

The course will further explore the various instruments and principles relating to the diplomatic work, particularly the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. The course will end with an assessment about the current environment of international relations, its challenges in achieving a durable peace, and the future of the world order.

This course introduces students to international labour law, and, in particular, to international labour standards falling within the mandate of the International Labour Organization. Students will explore the present and future challenges of labour market regulation and governance in the context of globalization; the origin, history, role and objectives of the ILO, its normative mandate and function, its fundamental conventions, as well as the social, economic and political dimensions of the ratification and application of international labour standards.

The course will pay particular attention to applying and promoting international labour standards, including, but not limited to areas such as freedom of association and collective bargaining, migrant workers, child labour, discrimination and forced labour.

The only tripartite U. The main aims of the ILO are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue on work-related issues. Antonio Graziosi Italy is a former official of the ILO, with almost 32 years of working experience in the Organization.

He holds a graduate degree in labour economics from the University of Turin, Italy. He started his career as a researcher in economics. Between and , he worked at the European Parliament in Brussels. Graziosi retired from the ILO in and has since been collaborating with different academic institutions in Europe and Latin America in the field of employment policies, management of development cooperation and management and governance of international organizations. Technological developments increase the speed of social changes; requiring the reinterpretation and adaption of international norms.

In the past decade, the use of Information and Communication Technologies ICT has transformed the way in which we exercise the right to freedom of expression. This course discusses this reality and provides students with the necessary skills to understand the role of ICT and media in the exercise of the right to freedom of expression. The course starts with the understanding of the ICT, its importance for the current social organization, and the rules governing its use.

Then, it continues with the study of each of the elements that integrate the right to freedom of expression, and discuss the legal structures at global and regional levels which affect Media production, dissemination, content and audiences around the world. Throughout the course, students will consider the simultaneous protection of competing rights and the difficulties derived from the uses of new technologies. Therefore, by the end of this course, students will have the basic skills needed to promote and guarantee the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and other human rights in the digital age.

Through a simulation of UN bodies, committees, procedures, and codes of conduct, this immersive and experiential educational exercise encourages the application of knowledge gained in previous courses, including an understanding of the objectives and functions of the United Nations system, as well as the development of professional skills related to research, public speaking, negotiation, mediation of conflict, and the preparation of official documents. Historically, the conference has been open to outside participants from colleges and universities both regionally and internationally, presenting additional possibilities for networking, dialogue, and educational exchange among all participants.

UPMUNC is further enriched by special events, which typically include a panel of invited speakers, a diplomatic reception, an awards ceremony, and a closing celebration. He completed his master's degree in Conflict Resolution, Peace and Development at the University for Peace, where he currently works as a Legal Advisor and as a professor on conflict resolution, peace, negotiation and mediation issues.

He is deeply interested in peace, conflict and mediation. This course introduces learners to the international system for protection of refugees. Issues concerning international protection of refugees have undergone a sea change from the s when the international instruments for protection of this vulnerable group of persons was first adopted. The contemporary world order poses serious challenges to their protection, beginning with identifying refugees within mixed migratory flows, inadequate national policies by states to protect them, their incompatibilities with international law, the role of international organisations like the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR , issues of xenophobia and security in host countries amongst various other issues.

The course also analyses the regional systems protection with the help of selected case studies. The course is based on a dynamic pedagogy including reading materials, video clips, case studies, and interactive webinars with the instructor as well as officials of UNHCR. Strong emphasis will be placed throughout the course on case studies from around the world. It will also analyse the impacts of colonization on cultures and languages of indigenous communities, including the perceived tension between universal gender equality norms and practices of some indigenous communities that may be seen as violative of rights of indigenous women or as perpetuating violence against them.

The course will explore the history of the humanitarian system, its driving principles, and frameworks, and address themes of personal security and risk assessment, humanitarian response, crisis management, sensitive information gathering and fact-checking, and working with vulnerable populations. It also critically discusses the main challenges, trends, and agendas in the humanitarian sector today, including problems of mental health and wellbeing, processes of inclusion and participation, and future agendas like the localisation and decolonisation of humanitarian action.

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Click on the HoU logo below to get started! Application Form French only. The Hague Academy. Regional Courses in International Law. Audiovisual Library of international law. Objectives of the Programme: The Fellowship Programme delivers high-quality training by proficient international law professors and practitioners on a wide range of underlying topics of international law.

Medium of instruction: The medium of instruction of the Program is English or French. Financial Benefits of International Law fellowship: The fellowship covers: travel costs in economy class, housing, medical insurance, attendance in the Fellowship Programme, t he training material and the registration fee for The Hague Academy of International Law.

Required Qualifications: Candidates having a legal background with professional work experience in international law [mandatory] are qualified for the Fellowship Programme.

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