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Please note for your diaries the UNSW Initiative for Health and Human Rights is planning to organise its second Intensive Course on Health Development and Human Rights from Dec. 8th -12th 2008 in Sydney, Australia, following the great success of our inaugural course.
Note the dates now, pass onto your colleagues and prepare to join us as there will be limited availability.
WHY HEALTH, DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS?
New opportunities and risks associated with human development, widening gaps between health needs of particularly vulnerable populations and responses to these needs, and widespread movements of people through labour and forced migration as a consequence of economic pressure, climate change, conflicts and natural disasters, are key issues for the new millennium. The interactions between health, development and human rights are becoming increasingly clear: the growing recognition of their reciprocal relationships can help shape health and development policies, strategies and programs for the future. This evolution calls for reinforced education, training and research efforts.
The learning objectives of this intensive course are to:
Define underlying principles and prominent approaches applied to each of the fields of health, development and human rights;
Describe the reciprocal interaction between health, development and human rights and how these linkages can be analysed and applied in practice in one or more selected areas pertinent to participants interests; Illustrate how international mechanisms and procedures can be applied to health, development and human rights and how they can be accessed; Identify key actions and research that is needed to further the synergy between health, development and human rights.
WHO IS LEADING THE COURSE?
The Course Director is Professor Daniel Tarantola, Professor of Health and Human Rights at the University of New South Wales. Several international guest speakers and faculty drawn from the UNSW?s Faculties of Law, Medicine and Arts and Social Sciences will join him to create the course faculty.
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?
Those working internationally or locally in health, development or human rights sectors who want to better understand how to apply rights-based approaches to their fields. The range of participants in our 2007 course included lawyers, policy makers, public health officers, architects, general practitioners and post-graduate students.
This course is particularly suited to staff from United Nations and other inter-governmental and non-governmental agencies. Fluency in the English language is required.
COSTS
The fee structure for this second course is still to be confirmed, however for professionals full tuition fees will not be above A$2,200.
The tuition fee will cover coursework, printed course materials, morning and afternoon tea breaks, but does not include travel, accommodation, insurance or other living costs.
FIND OUT MORE
The Initiative?s website (www.ihhr.unsw.edu.au) will be updated with full course details by February 2008. Our website also contains further information on the Initiative?s research and education activities, and will include reports of the inaugural Intensive Course held in July 2007.
Please keep in touch by regularly visiting this website or email us at ihhr@unsw.edu.au to get regular IHHR News Updates regarding this next course.
Jacqueline Davison
e-mail: <j.davison@unsw.edu.au>
