summer schools

The Irish Centre for Human Rights offers three summer school programmes for 2013 on: the International Criminal Court; Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy; and Human Rights, Migration and Globalization.

Each year, the Irish Centre for Human Rights offers two highly acclaimed summer school programmes on the International Criminal Court and on Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy. Each of these intensive programmes offers participants a chance to immerse themselves in their subject matter and to benefit from the knowledge of an unrivalled panel of experts. Each programme also includes a variety of social activities that allow participants to network with each other and the panel in a relaxed and friendly environment ensuring that the summer schools are both instructive and enjoyable. 

The Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, NUI Galway, will hold its inaugural Summer School on Human Rights, Migration and Globalization from 8 to 12 July 2013. The School is open to practitioners, journalists, NGOs, and students interested in the contemporary challenges of migration and human rights protection.

Until 2011, the Irish Centre for Human Rights also hosted an annual summer school on the subject of Minority Rights, Indigenous People and Human Rights Law. This programme is now based at Middlesex University.

Cinema, Human Rights & Advocacy SUMMER SCHOOL

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Following the success of the last seven years in Venice and Galway, the Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway, together with the Irish Centre for Human Rights will host the fourth Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy in Galway from 27th June to 6th July 2013. 

The programme continues to attract young, talented filmmakers and professionals from across the world to engage in an exciting training course where ideas and projects are shared, developed and challenged by fellow participants and internationally acclaimed experts of film, television, photography and human rights. This year's programme will feature the Human Rights Cinema Event on 5th and 6th July, organised in collaboration with Amnesty International, Ireland and Galway One World Centre, in order to give participants the chance to assist human rights films which forms a basis for critical discussion. 

The programme director is Nick Danziger, a leading practitioner in the field of human rights documentary making, and he will act as the senior facilitator of  discussions during the summer school.

Other facilitators will include William Schabas (Professor of International Law at Middlesex University in London and Honorary Chairman of the Irish Centre for Human Rights), Rod Stoneman (Director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media), Christopher Hird (a central figure in independent documentary making in the UK), Keon de Feyter (Professor of International Law at the University of Antwerp in Belgium), Emma Sandon (who teaches Film and Television Studies at Birkbeck College in London), Florian Westphal, deputy director of communication at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Kelly Matheson (Program Director of Witness, an international human rights organization that raises awareness of human rights violations through the use of video and online technologies). Elements of the summer school include information on the fundamentals of human rights, how to raise awareness of human rights on camera, the development of ideas and how these ideas should be pitched.

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Deadline for application is extended to: 8 June 2013.

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