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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You may register for this course if you have admission to a Master’s programme at UiO or the faculty's exchange programme. You can also register for this course if you do not have admission to any programme at UiO, but meet the formal prerequistites.

All students are required meet the formal prerequistites.

Have you met the formal prerequisites at another institution than the University of Oslo, and the results are not formally registered at UiO, you must apply for admission to courses at Master’s level . Students with admission to Master’s degree programmes at other faculties than The Faculty of Law must also apply for admission.

When your admission is in order you must register for courses in StudentWeb

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Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

Students must fill one of these requirements:

• Passed 1st - 3rd year of studies in Master's of Law (masterstudiet i rettsvitenskap at UiO) or examinations that qualify for exemption from these) or
• Having a 5-years Master’s degree in Laws (masterstudiet i rettsvitenskap at UiO) or equivalent.

Students with admission to the faculty’s exchange programme and students with admission to any master’s degree programme at the University of Oslo (except masterstudiet i rettsvitenskap) has an exemption from the formal prerequisites.

Recommended previous knowledge

Three years of law studies.

Overlapping courses

10 credits overlap with JUR1910 - Women's Law and Human Rights (BA), 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 JUR5910 - Women's Law and Human Rights (discontinued).

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. This means
that the examination question will be given in English, and students
may answer in English only.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

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

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A student can sit for this exam up to 3 times. If a student wishes to withdraw from the exam, s/he must do this 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 for the exam.
A study programme may have rules that further limit the number of times a student may re-take this exam. In such instances the rules of the study programme will have priority.

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.

This subject is taught at Master 's level. The subject is also taught at Bachelor's level (15 ECTS credits), see JUR1910 - Women's Law and Human Rights (BA). Please see the chapter above, regarding overlap. For instances of overlap, credits will be deducted on the subject at Bachelors's level.