The Global Campus of Human Rights MOOC Children Deprived of Liberty: Enacting the Recommendations of the UN Global Study provides updated information on situations, challenges, practices and possible solutions as they are being envisaged in each region of the world.

In 2019 the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty denounced that more than seven million children worldwide are deprived of liberty every year. It provided an assessment of the situation in different contexts and set out clear recommendations for change. One year from the publication the Study, how is the world doing?

This MOOC is a complement to a previous Global Campus course on the Global Study and aims at providing updated information on situations, challenges and possible solutions as they are being envisaged in each region of the world. Hearing from experts, researchers, and children themselves, participants will learn about steps being taken in terms of deinstitutionalisation, diversion, ending migration-related detention and other measures.

Structure

The course is articulated in two modules:

• Module 1 is an introduction to the UN Global Study as a framework for action. Specific attention will be paid here to the Study’s recommendations and the developing follow-up initiatives which are being enacted in cooperation with different stakeholders, from UN agencies to governments, from civil society to academia.
• Module 2 is dedicated to regional perspectives and a variety of recent initiatives, examples and practices that are being implemented there. In so doing, the course specifically analyses the most relevant issues and themes in each region: from immigration detention to deinstitutionalisation, from deprivation of liberty for national security reasons, to diversion measures.

Course dates: 23 November 2020 – 10 January 2021

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course participants will have gained:

• Knowledge about key standards, documents and recommendations contained in the UN Global Study
• Understanding of progress and obstacles in terms of more viable measures of implementation, from the point of view of UN agencies, states, civil society and other affected rights-holders, in particular children
• Ability to identify multi-faceted aspects (pros and cons of each side of the matter)
• Capacity to discuss specific regional issues and groups/cases of concern

Target Audience

Global Campus of Human Rights designed this course for participants around the world who are actively interested and engaged in children’s rights work and wish to deepen their knowledge about the protection of children deprived of liberty and related developments, key issues and possibilities for transformation.

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