Diploma of Specialized Studies in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Diploma of Specialized Studies in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

The Université Catholique de Bukavu organizes a DES (Diploma of Specialized Studies) in Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law through the Regional Center for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CERDHO) of the Faculty of Law . Registration for this program has begun and will continue until January 30, 2018.

The DES in Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law offers the following courses:

• Human rights
• IHL

The application must contain the following elements:

• Letter of registration request addressed to the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs;
• Copies of diplomas and transcripts certified true to the original;
• Detailed updated CV;
• A passport photo;
• Birth certificate (recent less than three months);
• Certificate of physical fitness (recent three months);
• Certificate of good conduct, life, customs and good citizenship (recent less than three months);
• Recommendation of two teachers;
• Employer recommendation for worker applications;
• Have succeeded at least with 65% in the second year of the license and an average of 60% over the entire university course.

The application files will be deposited either in paper format at the office of academic services located in Bugabo, avenue de la mission, number 2; either in electronic format at vraucb@ucbukavu.ac.cd

COURSES LISTED IN THE PROGRAM

COMMON CORE COURSES

• General course in public international law 30 h
• General course in international criminal law 30 h
• General course in International Humanitarian Law 30 h
• Substantive human rights law (Rights related to personal autonomy and collective dimensions of human rights) 60 h
• Human Rights protection systems (national, regional and UN) 60 h
• Fair trial law and advocacy techniques before national and international criminal courts 30 h
• Interdisciplinary approach to human rights (philosophical, historical, political and sociological) 45 h
• Methodology of scientific research 30 h
• English 30 hours
• IT and NTIC 30 h

INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW OPTION

• Law of the conduct of hostilities 30 h
• Laws of non-international armed conflicts and internal tensions and internal disturbances 30 h
• Non-judicial mechanisms for implementing international humanitarian law 30 h
• The place of victims and witnesses in the international criminal trial 30 h
• International humanitarian law and peacekeeping forces 30 h
• Special questions of international humanitarian law 30 h
• Seminar on International Humanitarian Law 30 h

HUMAN RIGHTS OPTION

• Right to health 30 h
• Human rights and sexual violence 30 h
• Asylum and refugee law 30 h
• Child protection law 30 h
• Gender and Human Rights 30 h
• Human rights and development 30 h
• African system for the protection of human rights: Substantive and institutional law 30 h
• Human rights and conflict management 30 h
• Special human rights issues 30 h
• Human rights seminar 30 h