HRTD6903 - Human Rights Violations

Semester 1, 2011  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Susan Banki
Phone: +61 2 9351 4279
Email: susan.banki@sydney.edu.au

Description

Using a case study approach, this unit helps students to analyse the causes and sustaining dynamics of human rights violations along a number of dimensions; cultural, economic, organisational, social and political. Students will then acquire analytic and practical capacities and skills to assess the merits and feasibility of different types of interventions and design intervention strategies. It considers the impact of different types of interventions and the processes available for assessing the human rights impact of other laws, policies or developments.

Assessments

1x2000wd equivalent short answer questions (40%) and 1x3000wd essay (60%)

Classes

1x3-hr seminar/week

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