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This section provides an overview of the top LLM, MA, & MSc Human Rights programmes, Short Human Rights Courses & Summer/Winter Schools in Europe, and Human Rights Traineeships in Europe.

Summer School Human Rights and Persons Deprived of Liberty

LLM, MA, & MSc Human Rights Programmes in Europe

Short Human Rights Courses & Summer/Winter Schools in Europe

Human Rights Traineeships in Europe

Summer School

Summer School Human Rights
& Persons Deprived of Liberty

We are pleased to invite highly motivated students, researchers, members of civil society organisations and policymakers to the 4rd Edition of the Summer School ‘Human Rights & Persons Deprived of Liberty’.

Curated by Prof Dr Clara Burbano-Herrera (Director Human Rights in Context, Ghent University) and Prof Dr Manfred Nowak (Former UN special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment and Director Global Campus of Human Rights), this course is a great opportunity to develop an in-depth understanding of the structural problems around prisons through the lens of international human rights law, public health, criminal law, and practice from world-leading academics from Europe, Africa and North & South America.

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The Summer Course will take place on the Teams platform from Tuesday 17 June to Friday 20 June 2025.
The deadline for submission of applications is Friday 2 May 2025.
Successful candidates will be informed of their place on Friday 9 May 2025.
Find the Summer School Programme and practical information here
All applications must be completed via the Summer School online application platform
Some Scholarships will be awarded to participants from the Global South.

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DESCRIPTION

The course aims to provide an immersion in issues related to persons deprived of liberty from the perspective of international human rights law, public health, criminal law, and practice. More broadly, the Summer School ‘Human Rights and Persons Deprived of Liberty’ aims to prepare participants to understand structural problems around prisons and contribute to the improvement of the human rights of persons deprived of liberty in their homeland and around the world. The summer course gives participants the opportunity to interact with world-renowned scholars and experts in the field. The course is intended for persons interested in issues around prisons, such as master students, LLM students, PhD students, and postdoctoral researchers with a background in law, political science, public health, or criminology, as well as staff of civil society organisations and policymaker

ORGANISERS

The course is offered by the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context, the IMPACTUM ERC team, Ghent University (Belgium), and the Global Campus on Human Rights. We are committed to the promotion of human rights. Our goal is to preserve the standards of quality education and to continue our mission of preparing students to meet the growing challenges to the rule of law, democracy and human rights around the world. Candidates who self-identify as belonging to vulnerable or minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply.