Skills & Ethics for Human Rights Work

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Course topics will vary, but each will cover a specific skill that is important for doing contemporary human rights work. Topics might include: grant writing and fundraising, specific statistical techniques or research methods, forensics and human rights, interviewing of marginalized communities, creating documentary media, or the optimum use of social media. The course is broken into three parts. The first part provides an introduction to the topic of human rights and examines current issues faced by people working in the human rights field. The second section focuses on development of practical human rights skills. The last section explores ethical dilemmas faced when conducting human rights work