Education | Human Rights at Iowa

EDUCATION: HUMAN RIGHTS TRAINING PROGRAMS

There are numerous workshops and short seminars that can help indroduce students to various aspects of human rights work. Often each has a specific focus. Many take place during the summer but there are programs that run during the academic year. These issue-based workshops are excellent opportunities to interact with human rights specialists. The sample below is not exhaustive but a place to begin looking.

• Centre for Women's Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
“Women, Human Rights and Peacebuilding in an Era of Globalization” includes two 3-week sessions which may be taken alone or together. Both women's human rights and peacebuilding will be addressed within the frame of globalization and feminist alternatives.

• Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights Training School
A five-month course in Poland offered during the Spring and Fall semesters. Training includes lectures on the history and philosophy of human rights, institutions, and national and international legal instruments.

• Human Rights Advanced International Program
A five-week course offered during the Spring and Fall semesters and designed for senior civil servants and lecturers at universities and institutes. Program held at the University of Lund in Sweden. Fall course focuses on the human rights of women.

• Interdisciplinary Course in Human Rights
Specialized human rights courses are offered annually in different regions of the Americas. Participants study general human rights issues and focus on specific problems of the region.

• International Human Rights Academy
The International Human Rights Academy offers a session of intensive human rights courses, organized every year in South Africa and in Europe under the auspices of the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University (Belgium), the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University (The Netherlands), the Faculty of Law of University of the Western Cape (South Africa) and the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations (IFHHRO).

• International Human Rights Internship Program (IHRIP)
This program facilitates and supports professional-development projects for staffs of human rights organizations in countries of South and East Central Europe and the former Soviet Republics. The training occurs in different formats, but each involves an exchange of experience between countries.

• International Human Rights Training Program, Canadian Human Rights Foundation
A three-week program in late June/ early July outside Montréal, Canada, consisting of interactive coursework relating to participants' field-based knowledge and experience.

• International Training Centre on Human Rights and Peace Teaching
A one-week training program at the International Training Centre near Geneva, Switzerland, in mid-July. The Centre trains teachers, education administrators, education ministry officials and NGO representatives in human rights education.

• International University of Peoples' Institutions for Peace (IUPIP) Program
A three-week course located in Trento, Italy, for active members of non-governmental organizations that promote civil society, peace, and human rights. Course topics change from year to year.

• New Tactics in Human Rights Project's Asia Regional Training Workshop
In partnership with FORUM-ASIA, the New Tactics in Human Rights Project’s Asia Regional Training Workshop is an initiative to engage innovative human rights practitioners from the Asia region (South, South-east, and North-east) in sharing and developing ideas, practices, knowledge and skills to further the effectiveness of efforts to advance human rights.

• Teaching Program on Human Rights
This seven-week course beginning in mid-May and ending in mid-June is held annually at The Hague. Admission is open to people with a professional background, particularly those who work in NGOs in fields related to human rights.

EDUCATION: HUMAN RIGHTS TRAINING PROGRAMS

• Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights Training School A five-month course in Poland offered during the Spring and Fall semesters. Training includes lectures on the history and philosophy of human rights, institutions, and national and international legal instruments.

• Human Rights Advanced International Program A five-week course offered during the Spring and Fall semesters and designed for senior civil servants and lecturers at universities and institutes. Program held at the University of Lund in Sweden. Fall course focuses on the human rights of women.

• Interdisciplinary Course in Human Rights Specialized human rights courses are offered annually in different regions of the Americas. Participants study general human rights issues and focus on specific problems of the region.

• International Human Rights Training Program, Canadian Human Rights Foundation A three-week program in late June/ early July outside Montréal, Canada, consisting of interactive coursework relating to participants' field-based knowledge and experience.

• International University of Peoples' Institutions for Peace (IUPIP) Program A three-week course located in Trento, Italy, for active members of non-governmental organizations that promote civil society, peace, and human rights. Course topics change from year to year.

• Teaching Program on Human Rights This seven-week course beginning in mid-May and ending in mid-June is held annually at The Hague. Admission is open to people with a professional background, particularly those who work in NGOs in fields related to human rights.