[hr-education-na] Call for applications e-learning course "Human Rights Monitoring"

Call for applications e-learning course "Human Rights Monitoring"
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Distance education course
"HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING"
(September 7-November 29, 2005)

Dear Colleagues,

HREA is calling for applications for the distance learning course "Human
Rights Monitoring. The course will be offered from September-November
2005. Course instructor is Dr. Krassimir Kanev.

Below you will find a short description of the course. Further information
and application forms can be obtained at:
http://www.hrea.org/courses/4E.html

Please note that the registration deadline for this course is July 1st.

Best wishes,

Diana Hughes
Distance Learning Programme, HREA
http://www.hrea.org/courses


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HREA Distance Learning Course 4E05:
HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING
September 7- November 29, 2005
Instructor: Krassimir Kanev, Chairperson Bulgarian Helsinki Committee/Member
Executive Committee IHF

This distance learning course provides participants practical guidance on
how to monitor human rights. Participants will be introduced to the
doctrine and methodology of human rights monitoring, primarily as
developed through the work of international organizations and NGOs, such
as the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the International Helsinki
Federation for Human Rights (IHF), Amnesty International, Human Rights
Watch, Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) and national human
rights NGOs. The participants are supposed to acquire theoretical and
practical knowledge on the principles and the methods of human rights
monitoring and on monitoring of specific institutions and situations. The
course addresses approaches to identifying human rights violations,
information-gathering, interviewing, monitoring some basic human rights
and freedoms in the context of closed institutions, camps for refugees or
IDPs, trial observations etc. It deals with preparation of reports,
advocacy, interventions with international monitoring mechanisms, local
authorities and other follow-up.

The course involves 60 hours of reading, on-line working groups,
interaction with students and instructor and assignments, and is offered
over a three-month period, beginning on 7 September 2005. E-mail will be
the main medium for the course, although participants will need to have
periodic access to the Web and participate in chat sessions. The course is
based on a participatory, active learning approach, with an emphasis on
peer-to-peer learning. Participants will do the required reading, prepare
individual and group assignments and participate actively in group
discussions. The course draws on a variety of sources, including, but not
limited to: Malcolm Evans and Rod Morgan, Combating Torture in Europe: The
Work and Standards of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
(Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2002), Human Rights Monitoring (Warsaw:
Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, 2001), Monitoring places of
detention: a practical guide for NGOs (Geneva: APT and ODIHR, December
2002), Camille Giffard, Torture Reporting Handbook (Essex: Essex
University, 2000), Training Manual on Human Rights Monitoring (Geneva:
United Nations, 2001), and UKWELI: Monitoring and Documenting Human Rights
in Africa (Dakar: Amnesty International and CODESRIA, 2000).


Application deadline: July 1, 2005

A more detailed course description, course outline, information about the
course instructor and application forms can be found at:
http://www.hrea.org/courses/4E.html


ABOUT HREA's DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMME

HREA's Distance Learning Programme (DLP) was initiated in 2000 in response
to an unaddressed need for the continuing education of human rights
professionals and practitioners. The programme builds on HREA's extensive
experience in both the training of professionals (advocates, educators,
development workers) and the use of the new information technologies to
provide resources and to network human rights advocates and educators. By
offering short, practical yet specialised courses via distance learning
barriers that prevent many practitioners from participating in continuing
education -- such as a lack of time and/or lack of funds to participate in
regional or national workshops/trainings -- can be overcome. HREA annually
organises distance learning courses on human rights monitoring; research &
evaluation in the NGO sector; project development and management; use of
information and communication technologies (ICTs) for human rights work;
rights-based programming; introductions to the European and United Nations
human rights systems; and human rights advocacy (in English, Arabic and
Russian). For more information about the DLP, please visit:
http://www.hrea.org/DLP/


ABOUT HREA

Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international
non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the
training of activists and professionals; the development of educational
materials and programming; and community-building through on-line
technologies. HREA works in partnership with education agencies, NGOs,
governments and inter-governmental organisations to implement training
programmes for NGO staff, jurists, teachers, and other professionals
involved in human rights work. Current and past partners include, inter
alia, Amnesty International, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies,
Council of Europe, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, HURIDOCS, the
Inter-American Institute for Human Rights (IIDH), the Office of the UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Open Society Institute and UNESCO.
HREA is registered as a non-profit organisation in Morocco, the
Netherlands and the USA. More information on HREA can be found at:
http://www.hrea.org



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