Summer School on Human Rights and Their Implementation: European and

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Summer School on Human Rights and Their Implementation:
European and Baltic Experience, Riga, August, 2002 


Summer School
"Human Rights and Their Implementation: European and Baltic
Experience"

On 12-23 August, 2002 the Institute on Human Rights of the University
of Latvia, Faculty of Law is organising the 3rd Summer School Human
Rights and Their Implementation: European and Baltic Experience. The
target group of the Course are lawyers and graduate law students
coming from the former USSR including the Baltic states who work in
the field of human rights or study human rights. The working language
of the Summer School is Russian.

During the period of two weeks participants will be introduced with
the basic aspects of international and European human rights law,
including the general introduction to the United Nations human rights
system, and with particular emphasis on the European human rights
system, including jurisprudence and the latest developments in the
European Court of Human Rights, the work of the Committee of Experts
under the European Social Charter, Framework Convention on the
Protection of National Minorities, as well as human rights within the
European Union and the Organisation for the Security and Co-operation
in Europe. The course is orientated towards practical work, thus in
addition to the lectures students spend a lot of time on case studies
prepared by the lecturers. For the first time of the summer school
program includes also the moot court competition in the European Court
of Human Rights.        

In addition to academic studies, the participants will visit the
governmental and the leading non-governmental institutions, which are
essential for securing the rule of law and promotion and protection of
human rights in Latvia, for example, the Constitutional Court, the
Saeima (Parliament of Latvia), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
National Human Rights Office, the Latvian Center for Human Rights and
Ethnic Studies and Riga Graduate School of Law.
        
Lectures and seminars will be conducted by Latvian experts - Dr.iur.
Ineta Ziemele (Cambridge, UK), Dr.iur.cand. Gita Feldhune (Budapest,
Hungary), LL.M. Martins Mits (Nottingham, UK), as well as
international experts from Institute for Human Rights of the Abo
Akademi University (Finland) and Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human
Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University (Sweden).
        
Information about the documents necessary for applying to the Summer
School can be found on the website of the Institute on Human Rights -
www.humanrights.lv or by e-mail [email protected]. The deadline for
applications is 1 May, 2002.

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