International Human Rights

Harvard HKS

What are human rights and where do they come from? How have human rights become a global issue and are they improving or worsening over time? What explains human rights abuses and how can they be prevented? What roles do states, international organizations, NGOs, and civil society play in promoting and enforcing human rights norms? And how do human rights intersect with the defining policy issues of our time? This course focuses on human rights from a global perspective. Over the course of…