Minority Rights Summer Sschool: Indigenous Peoples & Human Rights Law

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Original sender: Niamh Walsh <[email protected]>

Minority Rights Summer Sschool: Indigenous Peoples & Human
Rights Law


Dear All,

MINORITY RIGHTS SUMMER SCHOOL: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES & HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

The Irish Centre for Human Rights, N.U.I. Galway is proud to present
this summer course on National Minorities in International Law, in
association with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law, Lund University, Sweden, the School of Politics,
International Relations and the Environment, University of Keele, UK
and Murdock University, Perth, Australia.

This year's International Minority Rights Law summer school will deal
with Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights Law. The course aims to
provide participants with an overview of the legal, political and
philosophical issues pertaining to international minority rights law
and its relationship to indigenous rights. The week long residential
course will take place from June 8 -14, at the Irish Centre for Human
Rights. During this time participants will seek to understand,
assimilate and critically evaluate legal arguments with respect to the
international minority rights regime and how it pertains to indigenous
peoples. In addition they will be encouraged to analyse the underlying
philosophical basis within the discourse and become familiar with
current debates and cases within the discourse of international
minority rights protection.  The objectives of the course can thus be
summarised as follows:

1. The imparting of knowledge about the minority and indigenous
regimes currently in existence, identifying their underlying
philosophical and theoretical basis

2. The exchange of ideas and identification of gaps with respect to
different minority rights regimes emphasising the overall position of
indigenous peoples within human rights law

3. The familiarisation with cases of the abuse of indigenous rights.

For a draft programme and application form, please go to:

www.nuigalway.ie/human_rights

Sincerely yours,
Niamh Walsh

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