Week-1 Introduction
The course traces the historical origins of the human rights in the Greek Stoicism, Roman Hellenic Stoicism, Greco-Roman natural law doctrines, and doctrines as they developed in Renaissance Period into modern concept of human rights.
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Course Material
- Week-1 Introduction
- Week 2- Historical Background (American and French revolution , Natural law, Natural rights)
- Week-3 UN Organization and Human rights
- Week-4 Charter of United Nations Organization (UNO)
- Week-5 UNO and Enforcement of Human rights
- Week-6 International Bill of Human rights
- Week-7 International Covenant on Civil and Political rights (ICCPR)
- Week-8 Midterm Exam
- Week-9 Human Rights as incorporated in ICCPR
- Week-10-11 International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
- Week-12 Human rights and vulnerable groups(special people, elderly people, minorities, and indeginous People)
- Week-13 Human rights- Convention on Rights of Child (CRC), Convention for Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
- Week-14 American Convention on Human Rights, African Convention on Human Rights, Islamic perspective on human rights.
- Week 15- Regional arrangements: European Convention on Human rights, The Protection of Human Rights Act 1993 (UK).
- Week-16 Final Term Exam.
- Chapters 15
- Department Law College
- Teacher
Dr. Atika Lohani
