Universität Wien

030724 SE Human Rights and China - Analysis and Response (2008S)

(für DissertantInnen)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 3 - Rechtswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

Vorbesprechung: März 08
Mai/Juni 08 (Termine werden zu Beginn des Semesters unter www.univie.ac.t/bim "Lehre und Ausbildung" bekanntgegeben).
Gemeinsam mit Mag. Katrin Kinzelbach, MA. Als DissertantInnenseminar, nicht aber als DiplomandInnenseminar anrechenbar!
Voraussetzung: Vorkenntnisse im Bereich Menschenrechte (z.B. Besuch einer KernVO des WFK Grund- und Menschenrechte oder Kenntnis des folgenden Lehrbuches: Manfred Nowak, Introduction to the International Human Rights Regime (2003)

Details

Language: English

Lecturers

Classes

Currently no class schedule is known.

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Aims, contents and method of the course

At the occasion of the 2008 Olympic Games, this seminar will analyze the current state of human rights in China, looking at de jure and de facto compliance, recent progress and remaining shortfalls. Secondly, the seminar will consider China's influence on the human rights situation in the region (e.g.: relations with Burma), her decisions at multilateral level (e.g.: China's role in the Human Rights Council or her ratification of international human rights treaties) and the human rights dimension of China's global reach (e.g.: her non-conditional cooperation with certain African countries). As a third perspective, the seminar will analyze the strategies employed by different actors (NGOs, inter-governmental organisations, states) to further China's adherence to human rights.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Understand the human rights situation in China, her influence on human rights norms regionally and globally and strategies employed to further human rights in China.

Examination topics

The course will be conducted as a block seminar where papers will be presented and discussed in a scholarly atmosphere.

Reading list

A reading list will be provided at the introductory meeting.

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