Civil Liberties and Human Rights - LAW 261

This course provides a comprehensive grounding in all aspects of Human Rights and Civil Liberties: International humanitarian issues, refugee rights and laws, disaster and emergency relief, apartheid and racial discrimination, drug abuse, judicial activism, and global and regional perspectives of human rights.
The subjects include:
- Conceptual and theoretical understanding of Human Rights and Civil Liberties;
- Systems, organizations, and instruments of Human Rights and Civil Liberties;
- Contemporary Human Rights situations and issues;
- Specialization course, such as:
- Activism and roles of NGOs, Amnesty International, and the Red Cross, as well as Rights of the Child and Human Rights; - Women and Human Rights, Religion and Human Rights, Population and Human Rights;
- Legislation-specific themes in Human Rights: International, Regional and National Human Rights Provisions;
- Violation-specific themes in Human Rights: Custodial Violence and Disappearances; Pretrial Detention, Undertrials and Prisoners; Human Rights and Police; Human Rights during emergency;
- Refugee-specific themes in Human Rights: Refugee Laws; Refugee Protections; Refugee Status and Humanitarian Assistance; Refugee Problems in Lebanon; and
- Awareness, Teaching, Research, and Implementation: Human Rights education, Teaching and Training; Human Rights and Peace, Non-violence, and Conflict Resolution; Implementing Human Rights Standards and Required Legal Aid; Remedies and Reforms; Role of the Judiciary, Public Interest Litigation and Media.

Language of Instruction: English (legal terms, however, are also given in Arabic and French).