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 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.

Human Rights, Migration and Globalization summer school

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 inaugural year’s subtopic is Defining and Promoting Human Rights of Migrants in an Era of Globalization.The School is open to practitioners, journalists, NGOs, and students interested in the contemporary challenges of migration and human rights protection. During the five days of intensive lectures, delivered by leading specialists in the field, students will be provided with a detailed working knowledge of the issues through presentations, readings and class discussions which will include a component on research and advocacy skills.

The week-long programme will also include a variety of social activities that will allow participants to network with each other and the panel of experts in a relaxed and friendly environment, ensuring the programmes are instructive and enjoyable.

The panel of confirmed speakers for the 2013 Summer School includes:

• Prof. Francois Crépeau, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Migrants and holder of the Hans and Tamara Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law at McGill University;
• Prof. Tomoya Obokata, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, Keele University, School of Law;
• Prof. Michael O'Flaherty, Co-director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway and Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission;
• Ms. Maria Stavropoulou, Director of the Greek Asylum Service;
• Ms. Helen Lowry, Director of the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland;
• Ms. Mariette Grange, Senior Researcher at the Global Detention Project of the Program for the Study of Global Migration (Gradate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland);
• Dr. Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko, Lecturer and LLM Director at the Irish Centre for Human Rights; and
• Dr. Noelle Higgins, Lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights.
  

More information, including information on how to register, is available on the School's website. Programme Director is Dr. Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko, Lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. Click here to view the provisional programme.

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