Human Rights Law Centre Summer School
The Human Rights Summer School is a unique, expert-led programme aimed at people working in government, national human rights institutions, NGOs, international governmental organisation, legal professionals and academics, as well as interested students. the programme provides a small group with knowledge, skills and insight. Each Summer School is devoted to a specific aspect of effective human rights promotion and protection, with an emphasis on the practical application of human rights.
The Summer School is led by Professor Michael O'Flaherty, HRLC Co-Director, and presented by leading international experts.
Summer School 2011
13 June - 17 June 2011
The Human Rights Law Centre Summer School on Protecting Human Rights through United Nations Mechanisms runs from 13 June to 17 June 2011. The Summer School gives participants an insider's understanding of the mechanisms and equips them with the tools to best use the UN system for the protection of human rights. The focus throughout is practical and applied.
The School devotes sessions to the human rights treaty bodies (the reporting and individual communications procedures), the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review Procedure, Special Procedures (UN human rights special rapporteurs, etc.), and the work of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and its field presences.
Members of the 2011 Summer School faculty include:
Please follow this link to download the Summer School leaflet as a pdf file.
The Summer School is led by Professor Michael O'Flaherty, HRLC Co-Director, and presented by leading international experts.
Summer School 2011
Protecting Human Rights through United Nations Mechanisms
13 June - 17 June 2011 The Human Rights Law Centre Summer School on Protecting Human Rights through United Nations Mechanisms runs from 13 June to 17 June 2011. The Summer School gives participants an insider's understanding of the mechanisms and equips them with the tools to best use the UN system for the protection of human rights. The focus throughout is practical and applied.
The School devotes sessions to the human rights treaty bodies (the reporting and individual communications procedures), the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review Procedure, Special Procedures (UN human rights special rapporteurs, etc.), and the work of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and its field presences.
Members of the 2011 Summer School faculty include:
- Rachel Brett , Human Rights and Refugees Representative, Quaker UN Office, Geneva;
- Marie-Eve Friedrich, Petitions Team, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights;
- Professor Zdzislaw Kedzia, Chair of Constitutional Law, Adam Michiewicz University; former senior UN official;
- Professor Michael O'Flaherty , Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham; Member of the UN Human Rights Committee; former head of various UN human rights field presences;
- Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan , former Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights;
- Professor Sir Nigel Rodley , Chair of the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex; Vice-Chair, Member of the UN Human Rights Committee; former Special Rapporteur on Torture;
- Sr Ibrahim Salama, Chief of Branch, Human Rights Treaties Branch, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Professor George Ulrich, Rector, Riga Graduate School of Law;
- Tanya Ward , Deputy Director, Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
Please follow this link to download the Summer School leaflet as a pdf file.
