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The Essex Human Rights Centre is delighted to present its pioneering and popular summer school on human rights taught by an interdisciplinary faculty of renowned academics and practitioners.

The Human Rights Summer School will be held virtually in 2024. We will be delivering our course in an online live, interactive format, split over two weeks, from 10 – 21 June, with sessions running from Monday to Friday, 1pm to 4.30pm BST. Applications for our 2024 summer school are now open! To apply for a place, please fill out our online application form.

The Essex Human Rights Summer School will cover a wide range of topics related to professional practice in human rights. Taught by an international faculty of leading experts in the field, the Summer School will examine human rights research methods, advocacy and campaigning strategies, and aspects of professional development. The programme includes sessions that address growing challenges human rights professionals face and highlights opportunities to overcome them. The curriculum is designed to build the capacity of both mid-career human rights professionals and postgraduate students to be successful human rights defenders and researchers.

For enquiries, please contact: hrcsummerschool@essex.ac.uk

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