Youngsters’s Human Rights – An Interdisciplinary Introduction

About this Course

Drawing on the contributions of a number of educational disciplines together with regulation, psychology, sociology, historical past, instructional and well being sciences, economic system and anthropology, an interdisciplinary strategy guides the coed right into a number of essential points regarding youngsters’s rights. Individuals will achieve perception relative to the event of this particular human rights class, in addition to to the evolution of the challenges confronted by youngsters over time and society’s efforts to reply. Profitable worldwide methods and applications selling youngsters’s rights will probably be highlighted, in addition to the function of key actors concerned in worldwide organizations working on this area. This open on-line course supplies an outline of crucial options of kids’s human rights. A central portion of the MOOC will encompass a presentation of the worldwide and regional requirements on youngsters’s rights and the associated worldwide and regional judicial and quasi-judicial our bodies designed to make sure their implementation.

No stipulations or particular background is required to register for this MOOC. The course is conceived as an introductory degree program, however members, who want to deepen their information within the area of kids’s rights, or have already got some prior information, could have entry to extra studying materials on a weekly foundation. Individuals who efficiently full the category actions and last evaluation could request for a paid certificates of accomplishment signed by the Teacher and the primary professors answerable for this system. Nevertheless, no credit are awarded. The course consists of seven topical modules distributed on 4 weeks. English is the one language of instruction.

SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN

• Justice
• Baby Psychology
• Worldwide Regulation
• Humanitarian

Syllabus – What you’ll be taught from this course

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WEEK

1

2 hours to finish

Worldwide requirements and monitoring methods

The module begins with the presentation of the background, origins and predominant content material of the UN Conference on the Rights of the Baby (CRC), and supplies particulars concerning the preparatory work and the worldwide political context by which the Conference was drafted. The content material of worldwide human rights norms are mentioned utilizing the subdivision between civil and political rights on the one hand, and financial, social and cultural rights on the opposite. Moreover, the overall UN human rights monitoring mechanisms will probably be launched, adopted by the presentation of the CRC monitoring system. A dialogue on the significance of regional human rights monitoring methods for kids in Africa, Asia and Latin America would be the topic of a particular spherical desk. Inside the monitoring framework a specific consideration is devoted to function of key actors: Unbiased Nationwide Human Rights Establishments (INHRIs) on Youngsters’s rights, Non-Governmental organizations (NGOs) and kids.

WEEK

2

1 hour to finish

The historical past of kids’s rights within the context of human rights

This module supplies an outline of the evolution of kids’s rights earlier than the adoption of the United Nations Conference on the Rights of the Baby. Primarily based on a chronological strategy, it’s a complete social and cultural historical past of kids’s rights, of the way in which they developed over the course of the final centuries. Whereas not constructing on a strict historical past of diplomatic relations, this module supplies a world perspective on this evolution. It goals to underline the multiplicity of actors, networks and organizations concerned within the protection and promotion of kids’s rights, over time. Additionally, it emphasizes essential moments of this historical past, such because the adoption of worldwide authorized devices on the rights of the kid, the 2 World Wars, and so forth.

This module will nonetheless problem frequent understandings of the historical past of kids’s rights. For example, as an alternative of describing it as a linear success story, it would spotlight progress in addition to failures. Additionally, the concept the rights of the kid are a twentieth Century invention will probably be balanced. By doing so, we intention to offer a posh understanding of the historical past of kids’s rights and detailed contexts for the matters they cowl (e.g. youngster labor, juvenile justice, and so forth.) and that will probably be studied later on this MOOC.

WEEK

3

1 hour to finish

Interdisciplinary Youngsters’s Rights Research

The module will present a basic introduction to the sector of kids’s rights research. It is going to emphasize the interdisciplinary outlook of the sector and can current colleges of thought in youngsters’s rights. Moreover, we are going to present the hyperlinks between youngsters’s rights and the sociology and anthropology of childhood and supply some examples of current youngsters’s rights analysis and observe.

WEEK

4

2 hours to finish

Juvenile justice

The sector of Juvenile Justice (JJ) or of methods of Justice specialised for kids in battle with the regulation, is the sector of kids’s rights the place the worldwide group has drafted the most important quantity of laws (nationwide, regional and worldwide). It’s clearly a really delicate area the place youngster rights violations are quite a few, the place violence in establishments should be deplored, and the place the response will not be all the time child-friendly, and doesn’t systematically favor particular person youngster growth. It’s furthermore a site the place the State exerts its energy in response to youngster offenses, fairly often by means of the deprivation of liberty ; and the place the State’s interference additionally represses non-criminal habits (working away, breaking disciplinary guidelines, breaking curfews, …), all of those actions wouldn’t be legally reprehensible if dedicated by an grownup (standing offence). And, alas this area of JJ typically accounts for violations of kids’s rights by the hands of States themselves: within the arrest section, in administrative detention, within the execution of judiciary sentences, but additionally in institutional care. The problem of JJ additionally contains youngsters victims and witnesses.