On 10 December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). In its preamble, this document states that freedom, justice and peace in the world are based on recognition of the intrinsic dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family. The same text promoted a moral mandate for all public and private institutions. The human rights set down in the UDHR were to serve as the common ideal of all peoples and nations, which had to strive: “to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance”
On the 60th anniversary of the Declaration, the department of Legal Studies and Political Sciences of the UOC, in association with the Catalan Human Rights Institute (Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya), has attempted to bring this mandate to the fore with the creation of the Master's in Human Rights and Democracy. This new postgraduate qualification attempts to bridge a gap to meet the growing demand of our society for specialists in human rights and democracy capable of incorporating into their profession, in the public or private sphere, basic categories of human rights and democracy such as equality, freedom, solidarity and the principle of respect for human dignity.
This UOC-IDHC qualification was created under the auspices of the Department for the Promotion of Peace and Human Rights (Oficina de promoció de la Pau i dels Drets Humans) of the Catalan Generalitat government and has the support of several Catalan universities and institutions: Ombudsman of Catalonia, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Barcelona and the University of Rovira i Virgili. The wide-ranging institutional backing for the educational proposal has allowed for the use of top professionals and academics in the field.
The Master's in Human rights and democracy has been designed to train professionals and researchers specialising in human rights and democratic transition:
a) Those who choose the vocational itinerary will develop specific skills for advising and managing or coordinating public or private organisations whose day-to-day business concerns the promotion and protection of human rights.
b) Those who follow the research itinerary will develop the skills needed to carry out legal and political research into aspects of human rights and democracy.
List of topics
- Human rights and citizenship
- Legal protection of human rights
- Human rights, democracy and globalisation
- Human rights, democracy and conflict
See complete syllabus
Price
4.295 euros
Consult the financial aid that the UOC offers to international students.
The programme fees should be confirmed on enrolment.
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