Human Rights Centers

ANNEX

Human Rights Centers

Human Rights and Peace Centers (HURIPEC)

Faculty of Law, Makere University, Uganda

Contact information

Site: www.huripes.ac.ug

E-mail: [e-mail] ou [e-mail]

Address: HURIPEC, Faculty of Law, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda

Teaching: Several undergraduate and masters courses; Diploma in Forced Migration & Refugee Studies; Annual school on International Criminal Law (2008+); student academy on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Research: Decentralization, Governance and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Publications: Easten African Journal of Peace & Human Rights

The Human Rights and Peace Centre at the Faculty of Law, Makerere University is devoted to both teaching and research in human rights, democratic governance and the protection of vulnerable groups, in Uganda specifically, and the wider African continent generally. HURIPEC has pioneered the interdisciplinary teaching of human rights and ethics, leading to the adoption of new curricula in several faculties at Makerere where such subjects were not traditionally taught. It has also implemented projects on child survival, public legal education, minority rights and the specific situation of Northern Uganda.

Since 2006, HURIPEC has organized a number of research projects, specifically on: Decentralization and Human Rights; Rights and Democratic Governance, and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, leading to the publication of several working papers that are available at www.huripec.ac.ug. Recent books include: University Human Rights Teachers" Guide, 2005 (by E. Wamala & G.W. Kasozi) and Africa"s New Governance Models: Debating Form and Substance , 2007 (by J. Oloka-Onyango & Nansozi Muwanga).

The Graduate Program in Human Rights

Federal University of Pará

Contact information

Site: http://www.ufpa.b/ppgd

E-mail: [e-mail]

Address: Rua Augusto Corrêa, n. 1 - Campus Universitário - Profissional

CEP: 66075-900, Belém - PA, Brasil

Tel: [phone]

Teaching:

Graduate Degrees: Master"s and Doctorate in Human Rights, Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Paulo Sérgio Weyl Albuquerque Costa

Non-Degree Graduate Work: Course of studies for Specialization in Election Law and Specialization in Criminology

Research: Constitutionalism, Democracy and Human Rights; Human Rights and Social Inclusion; Human Rights and the Environment Publications:

Books published/organized and articles: COSTA, Paulo Sérgio Weyla. Direitos Humanos em Concreto, Curitiba, Juruá, 2008; BELTRÃO, J. F. et al. (Org.), Antropologia e Patrimônio Cultural - Diálogos e Desafios Contemporâneos, Florianópolis - SC: Nova Letra/ABA, 2007. v. 1. 353 p.; BRITO Filho, J. C. M., Direito Sindical, 2. ed. São Paulo: Editora LTr, 2007. v. 1. 374; SCAFF, Fernando Facury (Org.), Constitucionalismo, tributação e direitos humanos, São Paulo: Renovar, 2007. v. 1. 327 p.

The program of Graduate Studies in Human Rights at the Federal University of Pará is structured around the following elements:

a) Interdisciplinary Study: Expertise in human rights requires a familiarity with different areas of knowledge. The teaching faculty brings together professors with degrees in law, sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy, which gives an interdisciplinary character to projects, areas of research, and curriculum structure.

b) Focus on vulnerable groups: The economic globalization that produced work conditions of a precarious nature and growth in unemployment increased the rate of exclusion in societies, affecting the capacity for public policy implementation by the United Nations. Within the program, the activities of teaching, research, and expansion of human rights have a focus on socially and economically vulnerable groups, specifically addressing the social inclusion of indigenous populations of the Amazon. With regard to human rights education, instruction focuses on the study of the living conditions of these groups, with the aim of offering the empirical expertise necessary for the promotion of their rights, as well as the carrying out of research that seeks alternatives to the current situation;

c) Protection of human rights and the environment: The set of problems faced in the Amazon Region requires a consideration of environmental factors. The ecological equilibrium of the environment is understood as a human right. In this sense, public policies that are developed for their protection are related in an intrinsic way to the sustainable use of the natural resources of the region. With this in mind, research in the area looks at the relationship between human rights protection and environmental protection in the sense of coordinatingsociocultural systems and the biophysical environment, and even examining the way in which nature is appropriated for use and the resulting transformation of Amazonian space;

d) Collaboration with organizations for the protection of human rights: Master"s students in human rights will have to complete an internship with a governmental or non-governmental organization for the protection of human rights whose operations and activities will strengthen the empirical material for master"s-level research. With regard to this, two goals are sought: the guidance of master"s research toward the concrete problems of human rights violations in the region and the application of the experience obtained by the students with an aim to strengthen the actions of these institutions.

Centre for Comparative and Public Law

Law Faculty, The University of Hong Kong, China

Contact information

Site: www.hku.hk/ccpl

E-mail: [e-mail]

Address: 304 KK Leung Building, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China

Teaching:

The Centre for Comparative and Public Law (‘CCPL") provides institutional support to the LL.M in Human Rights, through which core teaching in international human rights law is conducted. This programme offers places for one year full-time, or two years part-time study (more information below).

Research: Extensive, focusing on public law, international human rights law and comparative law.
Visit http://www.hku.hk/ccpl/research_projects_issues/index.html Publications:

Extensive. Some examples include:

A. Books: Interpreting Hong Kong"s Basic Law—the Struggle for Coherence (2008), edited by Hualing Fu, Lison Harris, and Simon NM Young; Human Rights in Asia: A Comparative Legal Study of Twelve Asian Jurisdictions, France and the US, (2006), edited by Carole Petersen, Albert Chen, and Randall Peerenboom; Hong Kong"s Constitutional Debates (2005), edited by Johannes Chan and Lison Harris; National Security and Fundamental Freedoms: Hong Kong"s Article 23 under Scrutiny, (2005), edited by Fu Hualing, Carole J Petersen, and Simon NM Young; Enforcing Equal Opportunities: Investigation and Conciliation of Discrimination Complaints in Hong Kong (2003), Carole J. Petersen, Janice Fong, and Gabrielle Rush

B. Occasional Papers: Please visit http://www.hku.hk/ccpl/pub/ occasionalpapers/index.html

C. Submissions to Government: Please visit http://www.hku.hk/ccpl/pub/submissions/index.htmlccpl/pub/occasionalpapers/ index.html

CCPL was established within the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong in mid1995 with the aim of promoting research in the fields of public and comparative law, including human rights law, and to disseminate the results of that research through publications and making materials available on-line. CCPL"s research projects include the international law implications of the resumption of Chinese sovereignty in 1997, including the Hong Kong treaty project, immigration law and practice, equality and the law in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Bill of Rights, human rights protection under the Basic Law and international human rights law.

As noted above, CCPL supports the LL.M in Human Rights. This programme was established at the Faculty of Law in 1999 to meet the increasing demand for practical and theoretical knowledge about human rights throughout the Asia-Pacific region. It remains the only such programme in all of Asia. Professors teaching on the LL.M in Human Rights are experts in their field. The programme is the most internationally diverse in the university. Its students have come from many Asian countries, including the People"s Republic of China, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. The programme has also attracted students from Europe (Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Romania, Turkey, France, the Netherlands), the Pacific (Australia, New Zealand and Fiji) and the Americas (Canada, United States, and Puerto Rico). Students have included high ranking state officials, judges, prosecutors, practicing lawyers, academics, journalists, civil society activists and staff of national human rights institutions.

In addition to the compulsory courses (Public International Law if not already taken; International and Regional Protection of Human Rights; History Theory and Politics of Human Rights; National Protection of Human Rights), the LLM has offered the following optional courses in recent years: Comparative Constitutional Law, Current Issues in Human Rights, Dealing with Legacies of Human Rights Violations, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Equality and Non-discrimination, Ethnicity, Human Rights and Democracy, Human Rights in China, Human Rights in Hong Kong, International Environmental Law, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, The Rights of the Child in International and Domestic Law. For more details of the LL.M in Human Rights, please see http://www.hku.hk/ccpl/human_rights/index.html.

For more about CCPL"s work, find the Centre"s annual reports at http://www.hku.hk/ccpl/ about_centre/about_centre.html.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  22 Jan 2009
• Date of issue
  June 2008