New course: Socio-Economic Justice through Human Rights

The Global Campus on Human Rights is organizing a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to explore current developments in implementing economic and social rights and their role in redressing unjust distribution of resources and powers. It looks at legal frameworks and current political, social and economic challenges to better understand their links with a rights-based approach to socio-economic justice. Through regional examples and case studies, it provides a global overview of difficulties and obstacles but also possible alternatives and solutions.

It is in times of crisis that human rights become more important and transformative. Far from being resolved, the current crises actually offer the opportunity to reclaim a fundamental role for the promotion, protection and implementation of human rights. From equality between women and men to dignified living and working conditions, from social movements to attempts at radical participatory democracy, from social protection to education, many are the areas where a rights-based approach - and socio-economic rights in particular - can and should intertwine with economic and social justice. Good practices and case-law already exist that call for a more attentive study of how social and economic justice can be enhanced through human rights.

Our ED, Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona is one of the lecturers. The course is free and meant for participants around the world who are actively interested and engaged in socio-economic justice and wish to deepen their knowledge about the theory and practice of applying a rights-based approach to analysis, assessment, redress and change in this area.

The course runs over 4 weeks and is organised in 2 modules:

Module 1 introduces a rights-based approach to socio-economic justice, with a focus on legal, political and social perspectives on rights, justice and equality.

Module 2 is dedicated to Socio-Economic Justice through human rights in practice and aims to suggest ways forward by looking at specific themes and rights such as poverty, gender, education, socio-economic justice for children.