Course content - Learning outcome - Admission - Prerequisites - Overlapping courses - Teaching - Examination - Evaluation - Other

Course content

This course presents the international legal framework for women's human rights with emphasis on basic principles such as equality and non-discrimination, freedom, integrity and dignity embedded in the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The equality and non-discrimination principle is elaborated in the light of the CEDAW with reference to relevant provisions in the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Child Rights Convention, European Union Law and the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of African Women. The non-discrimination principle is substantiated through a focus on the right to work, the right to health, the right to protection against violence, the right to land and the right to water and sanitation. Rather than seeing women as a homogenous group the course explores the position of different groups of women in different legal, social and economic contexts in Scandinavian, African and Asian countries.
Cross-cutting core topics are:

• How equality and discrimination law responds to women’s lived realities is addressed with focus on women’s work in terms of formal employment and care for family members.
• The relationship between different human rights principles, such as gender equality, freedom of religion and protection of custom and culture.
• The indivisibility of human rights is addressed with focus on the relationship between the right to health, food, land and water.
• The relationship between human rights and legal pluralism is addressed through empirical studies of access to natural resources and access to law in African and Scandinavian countries.
• How international human rights law is translated into national and local law is deal with through case studies from African, Asian and Scandinavian countries.

Learning outcome

See ‘Detailed course information’ regarding requirements and syllabus.

Admission

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Students who are admitted to study programmes or individual courses at UiO must each semester register
which courses and exams they wish to sign up for by registering a study plan in StudentWeb.

International applicants, if you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information
about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

Nordic applicants that are accepted to study programmes or individual courses at UiO can be admitted to this course.

The examination in this course is not available for external candidates. Only students admitted to the course may sit for the examination.

Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

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Recommended previous knowledge

Please note that lectures and curriculum for this course is aimed at students at master degree level.

However, the achievement requirements are adjusted for students who take the subject at bachelor degree level.

Overlapping courses

10 credits overlap with JUR5910 - Women's Law and Human Rights (discontinued), 10 credits overlap with VALWOMEN - Kvinnerett - internasjonal variant (discontinued), 10 credits overlap with JUXWOMEN - Kvinnerett - internasjonal variant (discontinued), 10 credits overlap with JUTWOMEN - Women´s Law and Human Rights (discontinued), 10 credits overlap with PILWOMEN - Women's Law and Human Rights (discontinued) and 10 credits overlap with JUS5910 - Women's Law and Human Rights.

Teaching

Lectures/seminars.

Language of teaching for this course is English. This means that all
communication during lectures/seminars will be in English, and all
literature and auxiliary materials are in English.

Access to teaching

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Examination

4 hour written examination.

Examination support material

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Regulations for support materials permitted at examination for courses taught in English . Please read all three chapters.

Previous exam papers

Language of examination

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The language of examination for this course is English: the examination question will be given in English, and students
may answer in English only.

Grading scale

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Starting from the springsemester 2012, course grades are awarded using alphabetic grades, from A to E for passes and F for fail.

Up to, and including, the autumnsemester 2011, students are awarded either a passing or failing grade.

Explanations and appeals

You may request an explanation of your grades, and you may also appeal against your grades or make a complaint about formal examination errors. Read more about explanations and appeals.

Resit an examination

You can usually resit an exam, but the conditions depend on whether you had a valid reason for absence from the regular exam. Read more about resitting an exam.

Withdrawal from an examination

A student may sit this exam up to 3 times. If a student wishes to withdraw from the exam, s/he must do so in StudentWeb at least two weeks prior to the first day of the exam. Failure to do so will be counted as one of the three opportunities to sit the exam.

Special examination arrangements

If you have a disability or a health problem that entails significant inconvenience in an examination situation, you may be considered for special examination arrangements. Mothers who are breastfeeding may apply for extra time to complete the exam.

Please se Detailed regulations for the Faculty of Law, Chapter 3 regarding application, responsibilities and special measures.

Evaluation

Feedback from our students is essential to us in our efforts to ensure and further improve the high quality of our programmes and courses. All courses are subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students on a particular course to participate in a more comprehensive, periodic evaluation of this course.

Other

The language for this course is English. Students enrolled in the
Masterprogrammet i rettsvitenskap must pass one
English subject as part of their degree, this course will meet these
obligations.

Dette emnet er på bachelor-nivå. Vi tilbyr også emnet på master-nivå (10 studiepoeng) og med krav til forkunnskaper, se JUS5910 - Women's Law and Human Rights.

Se oversikten over om overlappende emner. Ved overlapp vil vekttallsreduksjonen registreres på bachelor-emnet.