HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS

An intensive course exploring linkages between health and human rights and building skills in rights based monitoring and use of international and national instruments, designed for health and human rights activists.

November 12th - 24th , 2007

Organized by

Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes and Tata Institute of Social Sciences

About the Course

This intensive 2 weeks residential course focuses on the relationship between health and human rights. The course identifies and discusses the complex interactions between health and human rights. The key areas covered by the course are:

1. The implications of human rights for public health theory and practice.
2. The effect of health policies and programs on human rights
3. Health consequences of human rights violations
4. The linkage and synergies between promoting and protecting health and human rights
5. Monitoring health and human rights

This course is designed to provide an overview of the nature and role of national and international norms, processes and institutions with respect to health and human rights issues. The course will include responses of the national and international political and legal order to some of the pressing issues of health and human rights. It will explore the dialectical relation between the pursuit of national interest by the governments and the rhetoric of global objectives by the agencies that include health or human rights within their mandates.

Eligibility: Graduation and above

Registration Fees: Rs.5000/-
The cost of food and accommodation will be borne by us. (Traveling expenses have to be borne by the participants.) On basis of need registration fees for few participants may be waived.

Last date of form submission: October 1 , 2007

Venue: Conference Hall
Tata Institute Of Social Sciences ( TISS) Campus, Deonar, Mumbai

Accommodation: TISS Hostel

For more information write:
Course Coordinator
Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal
CEHAT
Sai Ashray , Aram Society Road
Vakola, Santacruz (East)
Mumbai - 55.
Tel: 26673571 / 26673154
Fax: 26673156
Email: cehat@vsnl.com
www.cehat.org