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This course takes a human rights-based approach - one of the pillars of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals - to explore a series of social and economic issues faced by communities in the global South. Issues covered in the course include rights in specific sectors, such as education and health, and broader cross-cutting concerns such as the right to development, gender rights, cultural rights and disability rights.

Seminar: two groups of 2 hours per week, for 10 weeks

Open to postgraduate students only.

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■  Blog 1,000 words (25%) plus presentation on same subject (15%). Alternative assessment will be available in case of good cause and/or disability.

■ Summative Essay, 3,000 words (60%)

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the additional challenges of protecting human-rights in global South settings. It analyses the relationship between rights and development and explores the constraints and challenges that exist throughout the global South in protecting these rights. As the course explores rights through development, students will investigate the lived experiences of different communities in the global South through a rights-based approach.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ · Identify key rights relating to development and understand the challenges of implementation and how they relate to development and rights outcomes in the global South

■ · Work independently to apply understanding and develop reasoned arguments supported by empirical evidence

■ · Critically examine concepts used in the study of rights and development

■ · Evaluate and synthesise the central issues in modern international human rights debates from the perspective of development in global South settings

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.