Flemish Interuniversitary Research Network on Law and Development & Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre

Training Programme Human Rights for Development

Antwerp, 30 July – 10 August 2012

The international training programme Human Rights for Development (HR4DEV) maps the potential and limits of human rights in development and development cooperation, with a specific focus on children’s rights.

The course consists of a general part on human rights and development, and a thematic part on children's rights and globalization. It targets ‘leaders of the future’ in practice, policy and academia:

Module 1: Human Rights and Development (general) (week 1 and 2).

Module 2: Children's Rights in a Globalized World: Critical Approaches (thematic) (week 3 and 4).

The training programme aims at promoting knowledge, insight and skills in the field of human rights (including children’s rights) and at developing young leaders in policy, practice and academia, to enable them to pass on this knowledge and skills to their own society (according to the train-the-trainers model), on the one hand, and to stimulate critical and strategic reflection on the integration of human rights (including children's rights) in their professional activities, on the other.

HR4DEV is not exclusively organised for participants from the South. We explicitly choose to expose participants from North and South to the views of participants from other continents. Information, knowledge and means that are relevant in both North and South are shared.

Course deadline: extended to 30 April 2012 at 4 p.m