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AUSJAL Access to Justice

Promoting and defending Human Rights is everyone's job.

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Duration 240 hours over 22 weeks Online modality

This program

To offer theoretical knowledge and practical tools for understanding the doctrine and applying the norms that protect rights associated with justice in countries throughout the region.

Intended for graduates of different academic disciplines, justice workers, lawyers, members of non-governmental organizations engaged in defending cases, political and electoral officials, political party leaders, leaders of community and youth organizations, and educators, who work or wish to work in the defense, promotion, education or research of human rights, in both public institutions and civil society.

Course content

Fundamentals and historical development of human rights
International human rights law and domestic law
Human rights protection systems
Introduction to distance learning
Main obstacles and issues
International law standards
Human rights enforceability and justiciability
Strategy design

Elective:

Access to justice, rights of indigenous communities and peoples
International humanitarian law and international criminal law
Access to justice and gender equality
Inter-American system of human rights protection

By the end of the program

Participants will be capable of:

Working with the fundamental aspects of human rights doctrine and international human rights law.
Applying national and international regulations that guarantee Access to Justice for all, within the activities they undertake as part of the professional practice.
Analyzing the contextual elements that obstruct the enforcement of the Right to Justice and identifying alternatives for a more effective administration of justice.