The Centre for Applied Human Rights (University of York, UK), in partnership with the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), is offering a five-day Short Course on International Refugee Law and Advocacy in Bangkok in April 2013.
The course will cover the following topics:
- Understanding the legal and policy framework of the international refugee protection regime
- Developing national NGO networks for advocacy
- Conducting regional and transnational impact litigation of refugee rights
- Implementing refugee rights in domestic law
- Engaging elected officials and the development of national legislative caucuses
- Using national human rights institutions (NHRIs) to monitor and protect the rights of refugees
- Using UNHCR processes to protect the rights of refugees
- Engaging the human rights mechanisms of the UN Human Rights Council, including its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and special procedures (Special Rapporteurs, Working Groups, etc.)
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