• E4J University Module Series: Counter-Terrorism

• Module 8: Right to Life

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • International human rights instruments
  • Regional human rights instruments
  • International humanitarian law
  • Extra-territorial application of the right to life
  • Arbitrary deprivation of life
  • The death penalty
  • Enforced disappearances
  • Armed conflict context

• Exercises and case studies

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• References

 

Published in July 2018.

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers   

 

Additional teaching tools

 

This section includes links to relevant teaching aides such as PowerPoint slides, video material and case studies, that could help the lecturer teach the issues covered by the Module. Lecturers can adapt the slides and other resources to their needs.

PowerPoint presentation

• Presentation on Module 8: Right to Life (forthcoming)

 

Video material

• Watch short trailer of the movie " Eye in the Sky".

 

Tools

Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. United Nations, Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (2017). The Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death (2016): The Revised United Nations Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions . New York and Geneva. Council of Europe, Right to Life Toolkit.

 

United Nations General Assembly and Human Rights Council United Nations, General Assembly, Human Rights Council (2014). Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Christof Heyns . 1 April. A/HRC/26/36. United Nations, General Assembly (2013). Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions . 13 September. A/68/382. United Nations, General Assembly, Human Rights Council (2017). Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions . 19 June. A/HRC/35/L.25. United Nations, OHCHR, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.

 

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