Dear Members andFriends:
Please note that our
Member organization Al-Haq Center for Applied International Law in Palestine is
offering another Applied International Law Summer School in Palestine,
24.07–07.08. All participant costs, except the flight ticket, are covered.
Please find the necessary information below.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSZCHjF-t0U&feature=youtu.be
Invitation: http://alhaq.org/al-haq-center/center-news-archive/1032-al-haq-applied-international-law-summer-school
Al-Haq Center for
Applied International Law is pleased to announce its Second Applied
International Law Summer School for international post-graduate law students
and legal researchers in Ramallah, Occupied Palestine, 24 July – 07 August
2016.
The objective of the
summer course is to help students develop a coherent understanding of the human
rights and human situation in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and will
include presentations by human rights professionals and discussions on key
human rights issues. The program provides a small group of participants with
knowledge, skills and insight, with emphasis on the practical application of
human rights in Palestine.
The international law
course is a highly interactive program in which all participants are encouraged
to be fully involved. The training
methods include lectures, group exercises and field trips. The working language for the course is
English. All participants will receive
an extensive electronic file of resource materials.
Al-Haq [1] is an
independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organization based in
Ramallah, West Bank. Established in 1979 to protect and promote human rights
and the rule of law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The organization
conducts research; human rights education;
prepares reports,
studies and interventions on breaches of international human rights and
humanitarian law in the OPT; and undertakes advocacy before local, regional and
international bodies.
Al-Haq has a unique
international reputation for human rights education and research, earned
through decades of highly respected training of human rights professionals and
a commitment to the study and practice of human rights.
The fourteen-day
course will cover discussion topics including:
·
Al-Haq’s
mandate and working methods;
·
Historical
overview of the conflict;
·
International
human rights normative framework applicable in the oPt;
·
International
humanitarian law normative framework applicable in the oPt;
·
Current
human rights situation and developments in the oPt;
·
Selected
UN resolutions, case law and legal reports on the situation in the oPt
·
Available
international accountability mechanisms;
·
Visits
of and by numerous local and international human rights organizations;
·
8
field visits to Jerusalem area, Bethlehem area, Hebron area, Naqab-desert,
·
Haifa
area, Nablus area and the Jordan Valley.
The international law
course is open to post-graduate law students, legal academics and researchers.
The program is free of
charge and includes full board accommodation [2], hospitality and travel
expenses inside the oPt and Israel [3].
Registration will
close once the course is full. The summer course can only accommodate a limited
number of participants. Applicants will be contacted when the selection process
is finalized.
For more information,
please contact: ilcenter@alhaq.org
If you are interested
in this Summer School, please send your CV, including your nationality, and
letter of motivation to: ilcenter@alhaq.org
by 30 May 2016.
The program for 2016
is in work and will be announced soon.
Participants who
attend the 14-day international law course will be granted a certificate of
completion.
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[1] Al-Haq has special
consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and is
the West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists – Geneva,
and is a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), the
World Organisation against Torture (OMCT), the International Federation for
Human Rights (FIDH), Habitat International Coalition (HIC), and the Palestinian
NGO Network (PNGO).
[2] All participants
will be accommodated in rooms for 2-3 people.
[3] Flight tickets are
not included.