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Is your city truly inclusive? What steps do local authorities need to take to meet the needs of refugees and migrants? If these questions are on your mind, the online course ‘Co-designing migrant integration in your city’ is for you!
“Climate justice is a moral imperative, essential for making the world a better place for all its inhabitants, and embodies the principle of equity, requiring everyone to contribute according to their abilities”.
Hewan Tonini, School participant
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The Global Campus of Human Rights is proud to launch its first-ever specialised online course called “Authoring Justice”, born out of a longstanding collaboration with Prof. Andrew Leon Hanna, award winning author of 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs (Cambridge University Press). Designed for those eager to enrich their craft and embark on the journey of writing a book or long-form work, this course is for prospective authors who are keen on writing non-fiction narrative centered on a variety of human rights topics: from climate justice to gender equality; from racial justice to social justice at large. “The written word has the remarkable power to inspire social change,” says Prof. Andrew Leon Hanna. “In this course, we’ll explore how to write with empathy and strength on topics that we feel most enlivened to change in the world. In particular, we’ll emphasise human-centred narrative storytelling – as it can effectively shine a light on those who are too-often excluded, honour their stories and respect equal dignity, and move society toward greater mutual understanding.” In addition to learning from video lectures and readings prepared by Prof. Hanna, students in this course will also participate in 5 live webinars where they will hear from a dynamic, diverse group of international literary leaders – authors as well as publishers – who will share their invaluable wisdom, firsthand experiences and writing tips. Confirmed guests so far include Justice Albie Sachs, renowned freedom fighter and former Judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa; writer, campaigner and GCA alumna Jemma Neville; and Joel Rickett, Managing Director of Ebury Publishing, the non-fiction publisher at Penguin Random House. Throughout the course, participants will also submit two short pieces and their Capstone Project (~2,000-word piece) for personalised feedback by Prof. Hanna. The last week of the course will then be dedicated to the final celebration where each participant will read excerpts from their project, which will be published in the Global Campus Magazine. This is a unique opportunity for prospective non-fiction writers. As remarked by Dr. Angela Melchiorre, E-Learning Manager at the Global Campus of Human Rights, “telling the stories of unsung heroes is an inspiring and effective way to remind us that human rights and justice issues have to be nurtured, protected, and conquered every single day. This is exactly what this course does in a very pragmatic but also encouraging way. As an educational institution, there is no better means for us than to help aspiring authors put their ideas and those voices down on paper for broader audiences and systemic change.” The course will run fully online between 3 June – 26 July 2024, mostly in asynchronous mode but with weekly live webinars. For a detailed programme and more information on how to apply, visit the official page.
The Global Campus and the GC Caucasus hub are glad to announce a new capacity development project with the Moldova State University, thanks to the support of the EU Delegation in Chisinau. Over the next 18 months, the action “Development of Climate Justice and Human Rights Education at the Moldova State University (MSU)” will focus on the setting up of an interdisciplinary Lab on climate justice and human rights between the Faculties of Law and Biology, which flagship activity will be a credit-based cross-regional summer school that involves lecturers and students from Moldova and universities/countries of the EU enlargement Eastward. The project will allow for the State University, as a new GC member, to contribute to the promotion and protection of environmental rights and climate justice by producing and disseminating critical knowledge for policy change, in the context of the EU enlargement. This will be achieved through curriculum and teaching tools development, teachers training in theory and practical skills, including specialized language training, refurbishment of teaching spaces and outreach activities. In the project logic, a follow-up phase shall later transform the Lab into a Centre, and the School into the first post-graduate MA in this subject for this region. The innovation of the project lays in its interdisciplinarity, evidenced by the exceptional cooperation with the faculties of Law and Biology, but also in the cross-regional approach: for the first time, three GC hubs, namely GC Caucasus/CES, GC Europe/EMA and GC South East Europe/ERMA will join forces to implement a collaborative human rights education initiative of universities from the Western Balkans, Caucasus, and the Eastern Partnership countries. This new sub-regional project is the result of the ongoing cooperation with the MSU, initiated in early 2023 after a comprehensive mapping, consultation and needs assessment process, and under the backing of the government of the Republic of Moldova. A multi-year MoU was hence signed by MSU, GC and GC Caucasus with the goal of supporting the MSU’s integration within the regional network, through the newly established GC Capacity Development programme. A first project funded by Right Livelihood was then kick-started in January 2023 and after intensive work has already allowed for the creation of skills and tools to set-up new human rights education courses at the Law Faculty in Chisinau (European Standards of child rights protection; IT and human rights). These two courses are being piloted during this semester, also enabling the mobility of GC Caucasus students. Given these encouraging outcomes, the MSU was already accepted as a new GC member by the General Assembly in September 2023. The GC was later proposed to extend the cooperation to develop a thematic specialization in environmental rights and climate justice with a human rights perspective, in the context of the EU integration process. Such perspective was welcomed both at the GC and in talks with the EU, hence an extensive preparation process has later led to the awarding of a grant for its implementation. Eventually, the project was inaugurated in a public event held at the Faculty of Law in Chisinau on March 1st, with the participation of Minister of the Environment Ms Iordanca-Rodica Iordanov, the University leadership, representatives of the EU Delegation, delegates of the Global Campus and the project team. Currently, environmental rights and climate justice education are thematic pillars of the GC action. Understanding the systemic and structural factors contributing to both climate change and social injustice is the initial step toward envisioning and advocating for solutions that address these root causes. This is particularly true in the developing countries of South-eastern and Caucasian Europe, such as Moldova, which lag behind in terms of effective and right-based environmental policies. “This initiative could be a first step towards making substantial progress of the MSU in providing expertise at the national and regional on subjects that have been neglected, but which are vital”. Ms. Iordanca-Rodica Iordanov, Minister of Environment This project is part of the GC Capacity Development programme. For more information contact adriano.remiddi@gchumanrights.org