Objectives
The participants can:
a) Analyse the concept of gender in relation to human rights;
b) Reflect on the historical aspects of gender-related questions in human rights law;
c) Critique the changing socio-legal concept of gender;
d) Identify gender as socially constructed and some central tensions in the conceptual shift from ‘women’ to ‘gender’;
e) Compare the scope of gender-related discussions under different human rights systems and instruments;
f) Reflect on a range of timely topics related to gender and human rights, including gender-based violence, sexual harassment, femi(ni)cide, reproductive rights, intersectionality, gender categorisation and legal gender recognition.
The participants can:
a) Analyse the concept of gender in relation to human rights;
b) Reflect on the historical aspects of gender-related questions in human rights law;
c) Critique the changing socio-legal concept of gender;
d) Identify gender as socially constructed and some central tensions in the conceptual shift from ‘women’ to ‘gender’;
e) Compare the scope of gender-related discussions under different human rights systems and instruments;
f) Reflect on a range of timely topics related to gender and human rights, including gender-based violence, sexual harassment, femi(ni)cide, reproductive rights, intersectionality, gender categorisation and legal gender recognition.
- Teacher: Yulia Dergacheva
- Teacher: Katarina Frostell
- Teacher: Lisa Grans
- Teacher: Amalia Verdu Sanmartin
- Peppi-Teacher: Daniela Alaattinoglu