Learning outcomes
The programme provides the student with the capacity to identify issues and problems relating to the realisation of human rights, and strengthens the ability to contribute to the resolution of human rights issues and problems. It also develops investigative and analytical skills.
The programme is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. Focusing on international human rights law from legal as well as philosophical, social and political perspectives, it equips the student not only with the legal skills necessary to work with human rights issues nationally and internationally, it also enables students to take a critical stance and deal with questions of how human rights affect social and political processes and how to promote human rights through non-legal means.
Target group
The programme allows students with a bachelor’s degree, prospective professionals and scholars to develop expertise in the field of human rights — or in a particular, specialised area within that field — and it enables human rights practitioners to widen their theoretical hold on the human rights system and its historical and philosophical underpinnings.