Advanced Diploma in Human Rights: Conflicts, Politics and Activism

The Postgraduate Diploma in Human Rights: Conflicts, Politics, and Activism, offered jointly by CELS and CLACSO, is designed as a space for encounter, training, and socio-political reflection on current human rights issues. Nearly 40 years after the last “wave of democratization” in the region, the problems, actors, and tools are being transformed and challenged by current movements and future challenges.

The approach of this diploma program takes up the movement-based character of the struggles for human rights from the 70s and 80s and proposes a program situated in the region and in this time, from where to reflect and strategically project actions within a framework of articulated activism.

The program covers a range of issues that address key aspects of the traditions and currents of human rights movements in Latin America. The main challenges of this diploma program are to connect these origins with the most pressing debates within the human rights movement, to establish points of convergence between these struggles and other trajectories and activism for the expansion of rights, and to contribute to and collaboratively develop perspectives that combine local and regional viewpoints on these issues, movements, and strategies.

The diploma program will be taught by a diverse team, comprised of faculty from CELS and partner organizations. It has the institutional support and participation of the Eduardo Luis Duhalde Institute of Justice and Human Rights at the National University of Lanús (UNLa) and the Political and Legal Anthropology Program, Social Anthropology Section, of the Institute of Anthropological Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). 

Objective

• To learn about and reflect on the trajectories of human rights movements, their struggles, tools, strategies and current challenges
  
  

Specific objectives

• To situate the struggles for human rights in Latin America within the broader context of social struggles, problematizing the more institutionalist or bureaucratized versions of human rights.
• To understand the wide variety of problems addressed from a human rights perspective at different stages
• To collaboratively build with teachers a comparative perspective between the national experiences presented in class and those of their countries of origin
• To critically reflect on the tools and modes of intervention of human rights organizations, focusing primarily on research, litigation, and public communication

The Advanced Diploma in Human Rights: Conflict, Politics, and Activism is aimed at individuals interested in developing their skills for political debates in the field of human rights. We welcome applications from undergraduate and graduate students; teachers at all levels; and activists and members of trade unions, social movements and organizations, political parties, and public administration.

The program consists of 6 modules of weekly classes, each taught consecutively and linked to the others.

The modules that comprise the advanced diploma are:

• Diego Morales (Center for Legal and Social Studies / National University of Lanús / National University of Avellaneda, Argentina)
• Paula Abal Medina (CONICET / Interdisciplinary School of Advanced Social Studies - National University of San Martín / Center for Legal and Social Studies, Argentina)
• Pilar Calveiro (Autonomous University of Mexico City)
• Sofia Tiscornia (Center for Legal and Social Studies / National University of Lanús / University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Vanina Escales (Center for Legal and Social Studies / LatFem Feminist Journalism, Argentina)
• Ximena Tordini (Center for Legal and Social Studies / Crisis Magazine, Argentina)
• Camila Maia (Center for Legal and Social Studies, Argentina)
• Carmen Martinez (Center for Reproductive Rights, Colombia)
• Fabian Murúa (Center for Legal and Social Studies / National University of La Plata / National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Federico Ghelfi (Center for Legal and Social Studies / National University of Lanús, Argentina)
• Gustavo Federico Palmieri (National University of Lanús / Center for Legal and Social Studies / National Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Argentina)
• José Aylwin (Citizen Observatory, Chile)
• Leandro Vera Belli (Center for Legal and Social Studies, Argentina)
• Lucia de la Vega (Center for Legal and Social Studies / Human Rights Legal Clinic UBA - CELS, Argentina)
• Luis Campos (Observatory of Social Rights of the Autonomous CTA, Argentina)
• Luna Miguens (Center for Legal and Social Studies, Argentina)
• Macarena Sabin Paz (Center for Legal and Social Studies / Argentine Association of Mental Health / Enclaves Civil Association / National University of Lanús, Argentina)
• Manuel Tufró (Center for Legal and Social Studies / University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Marcela Perelman (Center for Legal and Social Studies / National University of Lanús / University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• María Inés Pacecca (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters - University of Buenos Aires / Specialization in Migration and Asylum - National University of Lanús, Argentine Commission for Refugees and Migrants, Argentina)
• María José Guembe (Center for Legal and Social Studies, Argentina)
• María Victoria Pita (CONICET / Program of Political and Legal Anthropology, Social Anthropology Section of the Institute of Anthropological Sciences and Department of Anthropological Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters - University of Buenos Aires / National University of Lanús, Argentina)
• Paula Litvachky (Center for Legal and Social Studies / National University of Lanús, Argentina)
• Sol Hourcade (Center for Legal and Social Studies, Argentina)
• Verónica Torras (Open Memory / National University of Lanús, Argentina)
• Víctor Práxedes Saavedra Rionda (International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations)