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Students will develop a meaningful understanding of:
1. The history, approaches and values contributing to human rights frameworks and the treaty bodies developed to defend them.
2. The role of new technologies in creating impacts, opportunities and challenges for human rights.
3. The mechanisms available and the creative logics to respond to human rights encroachments.
Human rights, in particular privacy, data proteciton, expression and assembly
Human rights instruments and mechanisms
Interactions between new technologies and human rights systems
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 24 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 101 |
Total | 125 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Assignment: An oral statement to the UN Human Rights Council in relation the impacts of new technologies on human rights. | Unspecified | n/a | Graded | Yes | 30 |
Assignment: A written submission to the UN Human Rights Committee in relation to the impacts of technologies on human rights. | Unspecified | n/a | Graded | Yes | 70 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | No |
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