Derechos: Human Rights Listings

Headquartered in Costa Rica, the United Nations-mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) was established in 1980 as a Treaty Organization by the UN General Assembly. As determined in the Charter of the University and endorsed by the UPEACE Council, the mission of the University for Peace is: “to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace with the aim of promoting among all human beings the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations.”

The Centre for Applied Human Rights and York Law School are offering 2 tuition scholarships for a new LLM in International Human Rights Law & Practice for 2010-11.

The scholarships cover fees at the rate for UK/EU students. The deadline is 30 April 2010. Applicants must have already been offered a place for full-time study on the LLM.

Our new LLM is distinctive because students:

work on real human rights issues through a compulsory law clinic, which gives them practical skills, hands-on experience and improved job prospects;
get the opportunity to work alongside human rights defenders during a two-week field visit to Malaysia;
learn from international human rights defenders based at the Centre; and
explore international human rights law from a socio-legal and public policy perspective.

For more information about the LLM and scholarships, please see http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cahr/LLM/llm%20index.html.