Intensive and interdisciplinary course on "New Challenges for Human Rights in Context"

Venues: Venice (Italy)
Period: July 1-10, 2010
Application deadline: May 17, 2010

The aim of the course is to allow participants to be updated on the state of the debate on human rights issues and to stimulate a reflexion on the current challenges faced by human rights actors worldwide. The course will be developped around three main themes: Human Rights as Our Responsibility, Human Rights and Business, and Human Rights and Climate Change.

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The course is addressed to postgraduate students from all academic backgrounds, students from different regional masters in human rights and democratisation, to E.MA alumni as well as to human rights practitioners willing to deepen and improve their knowledge in human rights issues.

If you want to participate, you shuold sent the following documents as attachments to veniceschool@eiuc.org:
- the application form (only PDF);
- your current CV (only MS Word or PDF);
- a scanned copy of your university degree/graduation certificate (only PDF).
The entire application, including the motivation and the CV, has to be submitted in English.  You should include a non-certified English translation of the required proofs, if the original certificates were not issued in English, French, Spanish or Italian.

European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC)
address: Monastery of San Nicolò, Riviera San Nicolò 26
30126 Venice – Lido, Italy
tel.: 0039.041.2720.930
fax: 0039.041.2720.914
e-mail: veniceschool@eiuc.org
website: www.eiuc.org/veniceschool