Course on Health and Human Rights at TISS
- Tata Institute Of Social Sciences -
An intensive course exploring linkages between health and human rights and building skills in rights based monitoring
and use of international and national instruments, designed for health and human rights activists.
This intensive 12 day residential course focuses on the relationship between health and human rights. The course identifies and
discusses the complex interactions between health and human rights.
The key areas covered by the course are:
1. The implications of human rights for public health theory and practice.
2. The effect of health policies and programs on human rights
3. Health consequences of human rights violations
4. The linkage and synergies between promoting and protecting health and human rights
5. Monitoring health and human rights
This course is designed to provide an overview of the nature and role of national and international norms, processes and
institutions with respect to health and human rights issues. The course will include responses of the national and
international political and legal order to some of the pressing issues of health and human rights. It will explore the
dialectical relation between the pursuit of national interest by the governments and the rhetoric of global objectives by
the agencies that include health or human rights within their mandates.
Download the Prospectus/Brochure/Application form for this program (PDF - 87 KB)
here.
This Education announcement was furnished by Hanjabam Shukhdeba (PhD scholar at Tata Institute of Social Sciences) . He can be contacted at hanjabam(at)gmail(dot)com
This was webcasted on December 14, 2008 .
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