International Human Rights Principles and Standards (2019 - 2021)

Mã/Course code

CAL 6015

Tên

Course title

Human Rights in ASEAN

/# of credits

3 credits

Số thời gian lên lớp / Lecturing hours

In class:

7 lectures x 3  hours = 21 hours

Time

 7/2/2020 – 16/2/2020

Name of course instructors/lecturers

Dr  Ngo Huong, Law School, VNU-SL

Ngôn ngữ Language conduct

English/Vietnamese

Understand the basic principles and international standards of human rights and the implications of these principles and standards in the world.

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Time

Name of lecture

1

13/3/2020

18:00 – 21:00

Lecture 1: Introduction of international human rights law

+Briefly overview the basic principles of international human rights law (sources, subjects, state responsibility), and

explore how human rights fit into the broader public international law framework.

+ the history and development of the modern system of international human rights norms;

+ Overview of the major human rights instruments;

+ Interaction between international human rights and domestic legal systems

2

14/3/2020

 17:00 – 20:00

Lecture 2: Principles of regulation of international human rights , category of rights

+ Explore the obligations imposed under IHRL (e,g, non-discrimination, equality, effective remedies);

+ obligations under IHRL;

+ The characteristics, structure, status and generations/hierarchy of rights; UDHR

+ Explore the justiciability of rights

+ Profile the types of enforcement of rights

+ Consider the capacity to restrict rights (reservations, derogations, qualifications, limitations)

3

15/3/2020

 9:00-12:00

Lecture 3: Civil and political rights (1):

+ Right to life; right to liberty and security

Case for discussion: S v Makwanyane and Another

[1995] ZACC 3 (Death Penalty)

4

15/3/2020

13:00 – 16:00

Lecture 4: Civil and political rights (2): Right to fair trial; freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment; right to humane treatment if deprived of liberty

Case: Eremia and Others v The Republic of Moldova

(ECrtHR, 28 May 2013) (domestic violence as torture and gender discrimination)

5

20/3/2020

17:00 – 20:00

Lecture 5: Civil and political rights (3):

+ Freedom of thought, belief and religion;

+ Freedom of expression,

association and peaceful assembly;

+ Right to participate inpolitical life;

+ Freedom of movement and residence.

Group exercise:

General Comment and Special Rapporteur’s report

6

22 /3/2020

9:00-12:00

Lecture 6: Economic, social and cultural rights (1):

+ Right to enjoy and maintain an adequate standard of living; labour rights, right to social security and family support

+ EC SCR, CEDAW, CRPD,

+ the right to equality & non-discrimination

+ Labor rights including the right to work and the right to just and favourable conditions of work.

7

22 /3/2020

13:00-16:00

Lecture 7: Economic, social and cultural rights (2):

+ the right to enjoy and maintain an adequate

standard of living

+ right to social security

+ family support rights

+ the right to education.

+ The right to participate in cultural life

+ The right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications

+ The right to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.

Group Exercise:

Right to food- Preliminary observations of Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food-November 2017 visit to Viet Nam.

Tài liệu bắt buộc:

1.      Khoa Luật-Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội, Giáo trình Lý luận và Pháp luật về quyền con người, NXB CTQG, Hà Nội, 2011.

2.      Gudmundur Alfredsson (Chủ biên), Tuyên ngôn quốc tế nhân quyền 1948: mục tiêu chung của nhân loại, Khoa Luật-ĐHQGHN tổ chức dịch, Nxb Lao động – Xã hội, 2011.

3.      Khoa Luật- ĐHQGHN, Giới thiệu Công ước quốc tế về các quyền dân sự và chính trị (ICCPR, 1966), NXB Hồng Đức, 2012.

4.      Khoa Luật- ĐHQGHN, Giới thiệu Công ước quốc tế về các quyền kinh tế, xã hội và văn hóa (ICESCR, 1966), NXB Hồng Đức, 2012.

Tài liệu tham khảo

5.      Cổng thông tin tư liệu về quyền con người của Khoa luật: http://hr.law.vnu.edu.vn

6.      Khoa Luật – ĐHQGHN, Giới thiệu các văn kiện quốc tế về quyền con người, NXB Lao động – Xã hội, 2011.

7.      Hội Luật gia Việt Nam, Tập hợp các văn kiện pháp lý quốc tế cơ bản về quyền con người, Nhà xuất bản Tư pháp, 2007.

8.      Chu Hồng Thanh, Quyền con người và luật quốc tế về quyền con người. NXB CTQG, H.,1997.

9.      Rhona K.M Smith, International Human Rights Law, Oxford University Press, 2007.

Rhona KM Smith, Textbook on International Human Rights (8th ed, Oxford University

Press, Oxford, 2017, ch 4 (International Bill of Rights) and ch 5 (The United Nations –

Organisational Structure) (available only in English)

10. Antonio Casessese, International Law, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Lecture 1 & 2:

·         International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)

·         (First) Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)

·         Second Optional Protocol to the the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty (1990)

·         International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (1966)

·         Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2008)

·         Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965) (“CERD”)

·         Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979) (“CEDAW”)

·         Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984) (“CAT”)

·         Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) (“CRC”)

·         Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (1990) (“CPMW”)

·         Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (“CED”)

·         Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) (“CRPD”)

Case: Toonen v Australia, Communication No. 488/1992, U.N. Doc (CCPR/C/50/D/488/1992 (non discrimination)

(1994)

https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/education/human-rights-explained-case-studies-complaints-about-australia-human-rights

Lecture 3:

Life; Liberty and Security

a) General Comments

i) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 36 (2018) on article 6 of the

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on the right to life,

UN Doc CCPR/C/GC/36 (30 October 2018) (available in English only)

ii) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 35, Article 9 (Liberty and

Security of the Person), UN Doc CCPR/C/GC/35 (16 December 2014) (available in

English only)

Lecture 4:

Fair Trial; Freedom from Torture and CIDTP; Humane Treatment when Deprived of

Liberty

a) General Comments

i) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 32: Article 14 Right to Equality

before Courts and Tribunals and to a Fair Trial, UN Doc CCPR/C/GC/32 (23 August

2007) (available in Vietnamese and English)

ii) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 21:Article 10 (Humane treatment of persons deprived of their liberty), HRC 44th session, (1992) (available in Vietnamese

and English)

iii) UN Human Rights Committee, General comment No. 20: Article 7 (Prohibition of

torture, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment), HRC 44th

session, (1992) (available in Vietnamese and English)

Case of Eremia v Republic of Moldova (ECrtHR, Application No 3564/11) 28 May 2013 https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{"itemid":["001-119968"]}

(available only in English)

Lecture 5: Thought, Belief and Religion; Expression, Association and Peaceful Assembly; Participate in Political Life; Movement and Residence

a) Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of religion and belief (Heiner Bielefeldt), UN Doc A/HRC/28/66/Add.2 (30 January 2015) (available b) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 22 (Art 18 Freedom of Thought Conscience and Religion), UN Doc CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.4 (27 September 1993)

c) Additional General Comments

i) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 34 Article 19: Freedoms of

opinion and expression, UN Doc CCPR/C/GC/34 (12 September 2011) (available in

Vietnamese and English)

ii) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 25 (Art 25: Right to Participate in Public Life), UN Doc CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.7 (27 August 1996) (available in Vietnamese and English)

iii) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 27, Freedom of Movement (article

12), UN Doc CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.9 (1 November 1999) (available in Vietnamese

and English)

Lecture 6: Economic, social and cultural rights

Equality and non-discrimination, labour rights including the right to work and the right to just and favourable conditions of work.

a) UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 23

(2016) on the right to just and favourable conditions of work (article 7 of the

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) E/C.12/GC/23, 27

April 2016 (available in Vietnamese and English)

Lecture 7: Adequate Standard of Living; Social Security; Family Support, Education

a)      Preliminary Observations of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Hilal Elver, on her mission to Viet Nam 13-23 November 2017 at

https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22439&LangID=E (available only in English)

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights General Comment No. 13

(Twenty-first session, 1999) The right to education (article 13 of the Covenant)

E/C.12/1999/10, 8 December 1999

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No.14

(2000) The right to the highest attainable standard of health (article 12 of the

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) UN Doc

E/C.12/2000/4, 11 August 2000

Usefule website:

 United Nations Office of the High Commission for Human Rights Website:

www.unhchr.ch

 University of Minnesota Human Rights Library: www.umn.edu/humanrts/

 University of Nottingham Human Rights Centre:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hrlc/index.aspx

 Prof Anne Bayefsky website: www.bayefsky.com (note: this is an excellent site, but it

is updated generally from 1999-2011, with only the jurisprudence section update post

2011)

 Electronic Information System for International Law (Human Rights) :

http://www.eisil.org/index.php?sid=638216897&t=sub_pages&cat=185

 International Justice Resource Centre: https://ijrcenter.org/#gsc.tab=0

UN documents:

The treaties are also available in English from the Office of the High

Commission for Human Rights website:

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CoreInstruments.aspx

1) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 35, Article 9 (Liberty and security of

person), UN Doc CCPR/C/GC/35 (16 December 2014) (available in English only)

2) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 34 Article 19: Freedoms of opinion and

expression, UN Doc CCPR/C/GC/34 (12 September 2011)

3) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 27, Freedom of Movement (article 12),

UN Doc CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.9 (1 November 1999)

4) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 25 (Art 25: Right to Participate in Public

Life), UN Doc CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.7 (27 August 1996)

5) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 22 (Art 18 Freedom on Thought

Conscience and Religion), UN Doc CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.4 (27 September 1993)

6) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 21:Article 10 (Humane treatment of persons deprived of their liberty), HRC 44th session, (1992)

7) UN Human Rights Committee, General comment No. 20: Article 7 (Prohibition of torture, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment), HRC 44th session, (1992)

8) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 16: Article 17 (Right to privacy) (1988), 32nd session (1988)

9) UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No 6: General comment No. 6: Article 6 (Right to life), 16th session (1982)

10) UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No.23 (2016) on the right to just and favourable conditions of work (article 7 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), UN Doc E/C.12/GC/23 (27 April 2016)

11) UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 19, The Right to Social Security (art.9), UN Doc E/C.12/GC/19 (4 February 2008)

12) UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 14 (2000), The right to the highest attainable standard of health (article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), UN Doc E/C.12/2000/4 (11 August 2000)

13) UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 13 (Twentyfirst

session, 1999), The right to education (article 13 of the Covenant), UN Doc

E/C.12/1999/10 (8 December 1999)

14) UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment 5, Persons with Disabilities, UN Doc E/1995/22 (1994)