Modalities

The module will be instructor-led, and will be delivered over a period of 4 weeks, to around 100 participants including representatives from Governments, the UN system, NGOs, NHRIs, academia, students and others. A dynamic pedagogy involving recorded and webinar lectures by the instructors and guest speakers, required and optional readings, video clips, case studies, and discussion forums for participants facilitated by the instructors, and short quizzes will be employed in the course.

Participants successfully completing the module will receive a certificate from the organizers.

Course Outline

The module begins in the first week with a comprehensive introduction to the origins, history and institutional development of the Right to Development, its normative framework, as well as general linkages with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In the next three weeks, the module delves into some of the specific themes addressed in the SDGs and explores how the RTD framework can be operationalized to better realize the SDGs.

Week One: Introduction to the RtD and the 2030 Agenda

Amongst others, topics covered include:

• The Right to Development: Origins, History and Institutional Development
• The Normative framework of the Right to Development
• The Right to Development and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Week Two: Operationalizing the Right to Development for Realizing Sustainable Development – Part I:

Amongst others, topics covered include:

• Poverty, hunger, and inequality
• Natural resources and Sustainable energy
• Climate Change

Week Three: Operationalizing the Right to Development for Realizing Sustainable Development – Part II:

Amongst others, topics covered include:

• Gender Equality
• Children
• Health and Well-Being

Week Four: Operationalizing the Right to Development for Realizing Sustainable Development – Part III:

Amongst others, topics covered include:

• Sustaining Peace and Sustainable Development
• Trade, Finance and Investment
• International Cooperation

Who Should Apply?

The course is intended for staff members of governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental organizations, human rights practitioners and defenders, development practitioners, academics, students, and others engaged in realizing of the SDGs.

Course Fee

This course is offered free of cost.

Application Procedure

The training will take place online in two rounds from 24 July to 20 August and from 30 October to 26 November 2024.

To enrol, candidates must choose one of the two rounds and fill up the application form at https://forms.office.com/r/2rzmhEKC71. The deadline for submission of applications is 18 July 2024.

Candidates will be selected on the basis of merit taking into account professional, regional, and gender diversity.

For any additional information, please write to hrc@upeace.org.

Contributors

• Daniel Whelan, Associate Professor of Politics & International Relations and Chair, Department of Politics & International Relations, Hendrix College, Arkansas, USA
• Diane Desierto, Associate Professor of Law and Michael J. Marks Distinguished Professor in Business Law, and Co-Director of ASEAN Law & Integration Center (ALIC), William S. Richardson School of Law at University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA.
• Flavia Piovesan, Prosecutor and Professor at the Public Ministry of State of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• Karin Arts, Professor of International Law and Development, International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands.
• Melina Girardi Fachin, Professor, Law School, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil.
• Mihir Kanade, Head of the Department of International Law, and Director of the Human
  Rights Centre, University for Peace, Costa Rica
• Obijiofor Aginam, Assistant Director, UNU-International Institute for Global Health in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Ole Kristian Fauchald, Professor, Department of Public and International Law, University of Olso, Norway.
• Patrice Vahard, Head of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Guinea.
• Priscilla Schwartz, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Energy and Natural Resources
  Law Programme, Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London, UK.
• Robert Huish, Associate Professor, Department of International Development Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Shyami Puvimanasinghe, Human Rights Officer, Right to Development Section, OHCHR, Geneva, Switzerland.