人权、人祸：挑战贫困、脆弱性和社会排斥

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课程概况

From women to children to indigenous peoples, the rights of marginalized groups the world over are violated daily. These injustices affect not just these groups, but also the stability of our world – and our collective future.

Join this massive open online course to learn about the establishment of human rights and their linkages to many other global issues in sustainable development. Using legal frameworks as the lens, the course explores the barriers that prevent rights from becoming reality in different societies.

This course is for:

Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students studying human rights, law, sustainable development, international relations, and related fields
Human rights practitioners working on the ground who want to improve the efficacy of intervention programs
Lawyers and policymakers interested in the context of existing and past human rights legislation and the current issues at play in revising legislation or adopting new legislation
Private-sector actors, such as those who work in corporate sustainability and responsibility, who are interested in labor rights, gender equality and more
Sustainable development practitioners who want to understand human rights in the context of a range of issues, such as forced migration

课程大纲

Module 1: Why Does the World Need Human Rights?

Human Rights and Why We Need Them
From Economic Growth to People-Centered Development
The “Rise of Rights” in Development
Creating Human Rights
Are Rights Enough?
Module 2: International Legal Frameworks, Institutions and Development

Underlying Concepts of International Law
United Nations Institutions
International Law and Standards
Regional Systems for Human Rights
Social Inclusion
Module 3: International Human Rights Frameworks

Special Rights for Some
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
International Rights Treaties
Limitations of Existing Standards
Module 4: Underlying Frameworks for Social Inclusion

Subject vs Object in Law
Equality of Opportunity
Affirmative Action
Autonomy as Protection
Law and Combatting Inequality
Module 5: Contested Rights and the Co-option of the Rights Discourse

Hierarchy of Rights
Collective vs. Individual Rights
Co-option of Rights
Intellectual Property Rights
Module 6: Gendered Poverty and Inequality

Poverty and Wellbeing
Gender Inequality
Households as Sites of Inequality
Gendered Experience of Poverty
Attacking Gender Inequality Within Development
Module 7: Gendered Rights and Violence

Women’s Rights
Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Violence and Legal Frameworks
Gender in the UN Human Rights Framework
Root Causes and Lived Realities
Social Communication for Social Change
Module 8: Social Exclusion: Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

Minorities and Indigenous Peoples
Issues Facing Minorities and Indigenous Peoples
Social Exclusion by Continent
Overcoming Structural Inequalities
Combatting Social Exclusion
Module 9: Advocating for the Vulnerable

Vulnerability and “Natural” Disasters
Gendered Experiences of Disaster
Social Protection: Problematizing Conditional Cash Transfers
Culture v. Rights: The Case of Female Genital Mutilation
Equalizing the Encounter: Free Prior Informed Consent
Module 10: From Exclusion to Inclusion: Responding to Crisis and Conflict

Humanitarian Response to Crisis
“Do No Harm”: The Rise of “New Humanitarianism”
International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Democratization and Political Participation: The Situation Room
Responding to Crisis: Mediating for Peace
Module 11: New Directions: Rights and the SDGs

Sustainable Development and Rights
A Vision of Rights for the Future
Pathways to Sustainable Development and Human Rights
Human Rights and the Economy
The SDGs and Beyond

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