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UNIR - Mexico Master in Human Rights
UNIR - Mexico

Master in Human Rights

Online Mexico

18 Months

Spanish

Full time, Part time

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01 May 2025

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Key Summary

    About: The Master in Human Rights explores critical issues surrounding human rights, equipping students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to advocate for social justice. This program focuses on global and local human rights law, initiatives, and movements. Through a combination of coursework and hands-on experiences, students will engage with key debates and learn about the mechanisms for promoting and protecting human rights.
    Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue careers as human rights advocates, policy advisors, or researchers. They may work with non-profits, government agencies, or international organizations committed to human rights issues.

Introduction

Form and join the fight for the defense of human rights

With UNIR Mexico's Master's in Human Rights you will specialize in an area of growing labor demand motivated by social transformation in recent times. Become a professional capable of analyzing and intervening in solving social and cultural problems, such as gender violence, forced disappearances and migration, among many others.

Through our complete and innovative program, you will be prepared to litigate the legal defense of human rights before an oral trial . In addition, you will learn the scope of the different protection mechanisms at the regional, national and international level of human rights, in addition to those developed at the supranational level in America .

A comprehensive and innovative curriculum focused on hands-on learning

The objective of the study plan is to delve into the new challenges in the delimitation of human rights and jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional mechanisms, at the national level under the guiding principles of Human Rights: indivisibility, interdependence, progressiveness and universality.

UNIR Mexico's online Master's in Human Rights offers you multiple advantages that differentiate it from other universities:

  • Practicality in the classroom. Practical activities and sessions on real cases led by professionals and collaborators.
  • International perspective. The program will offer you knowledge about the legal framework related to human rights at the national and international level. Regulations that are gradually coming to Mexico and that will allow you to anticipate future steps.
  • Select topics. You will deal with legal news, issues of special importance and exceptional cases of application of the law, among others.

In addition, by studying your degree with UNIR Mexico you will have free access to the international legal platform VLEX , which has more than 13 years of experience offering legal resources and solutions to more than 44,000 people around the world. You will have at your disposal:

  • Legislation, official journals and complete jurisprudence.
  • Contracts and forms (more than 2,000 ready-to-use templates).
  • Extensive collection of books, magazines and news (Proceso Magazine, El Economista).
  • Over 15 up-to-date software integrations for your use (SFX, RefWorks, MARC 21).

Seminar on Criminal Profiling and Victimology

UNIR Mรฉxico, together with the collaboration of the Unified Police Union (SUP) and the Studies Foundation (FESUP), offers you the opportunity to attend a Seminar on Criminal Profiling and Victimology for free and totally optional for our students.

The student will learn about criminal behavior, the principles of conduct analysis of subjects related to the criminal phenomenon (criminal and victim), as well as the VERA method, a criminal profiling technique for unknown aggressors.

Discover UNIR's innovative methodology

Study your Master's in Human Rights at the pace that best suits you thanks to our flexible, personalized and effective study method.

This methodology is based on live online classes and a personal tutor to offer the best training.

  • Live online classes: We have classes scheduled all week, so you can attend class at the time that best suits your pace of life. If you cannot attend a class or you have doubts, you can access any of them on a delayed basis and see them whenever you want, as many times as you need.
  • Personal tutor: The first day you will be assigned a personal tutor. You will be in contact with him by phone and email. He will support you in your day to day and solve any doubts that may arise.
  • Virtual Campus: Everything you need to study at UNIR is on campus: classes, teachers, classmates, the library, teaching resources, schedules, chat, forums and much more.
  • Didactic resources: You will have access to different learning resources to complete your training: complementary readings, summaries with key ideas, masterclasses, self-assessment tests.

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