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INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION - Lectures

I. Human rights and the development of international law
1. Human rights in the history of international relations.
2. The U.N. statue and the principle of respect for and observation of human rights.
3. Elaboration and passage of the international bill on human rights.
4. Human rights as a branch of contemporary international law.
5. Types of basic, inalienable human rights.

II. Control functions of the United Nations in the sphere of human rights
1. The role and competence of the main and subsidiary U.N. organs.
2. The role of UNESCO in international human rights protection.
3. The functions of control organs provided for in international human rights conventions.
4. The United Nations and international protection of refugees' rights.
5. The role of the Council of Europe in the European system of human rights protection.
6. The order of handling and mechanism of considering individual complaints.

III. Regional cooperation of states in the sphere of human rights
1. The European system of human rights protection.
2. The Inter-American Convention on Human Rights.
3. The African Charter of human rights and peoples' rights.

IV. Responsibility for violating human rights
1. International crimes and legal violations.
2. The legal subject-status of the individual and his/her responsibility for criminal violations of international law.
3. The establishment and competence of the International Criminal Court.
4. Recognition of mass and severe human rights violations, committed on governments' orders, or international crimes sanctioned by them.

V. International private law and human rights

Lectures INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION (only in Russian)

Constitutional Bases of Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms (Russian And Foreign Legislation)- Lectures

I. 1993 Russian Federation Constitution and basic human and civil rights and freedoms
1. Understanding and classifications of basic rights and freedoms.
2. Principle of the priority of basic rights and freedoms.
3. Rule of law and basic rights and freedoms.
4. Precedence of the Russian Constitution over laws and other legal acts passed in the Russian Federation.
5. Direct action of the Russian Constitution.
6. Generally recognized principles and norms of international law and international treaties of the Russian Federation as an integral part of its legal system, their precedence over internal legislation.
7. Correlation of the constitutions or statutes of subjects of the Russian Federation and the Russian Constitution in the area of basic human rights and freedoms.

II. The system of constitutional control in the Russian Federation
1. The emergence and development of constitutional control in the Russian Federation.
2. The powers of the Russian Constitutional Court in conformity with the Law on the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation of July 12, 1991.
3. The competence, principles and forms of protecting human rights and freedoms in the Federal Law on the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation of 1994.
4. The practice of the Russian Constitutional Court in the sphere of protecting fundamental human rights and freedoms.
5. Constitutional justice and the problem of limiting rights and freedoms.

III. Protecting human rights in criminal legal proceedings
1. Understanding and types of protection in criminal legal proceedings.
2. Protecting rights and freedoms violated by crimes.
3. Protection from accusations and suspicion.
4. Evidence in Russian criminal cases

IV. Protecting rights and freedoms in civil legal proceedings.
1. Legal position of the citizen in civil legal proceedings.
2. Right of the citizen to turn to a court for judicial protection.
3. Order of filing a suit (turning to court).

V. Protecting human rights in the administrative justice system in foreign countries
1. The concept of administrative justice.
2. The Roman-Germanic and Anglo-Saxon models of administrative justice.
3. Principles of consideration of cases by organs of administrative justice.
4. Rule of law and the administrative process.

VI. Protecting human rights in the sphere of executive power
1. Obligations of the organs of executive power in the sphere of protecting civil rights and freedoms.
2. Responsibility of the organs of executive power before citizens.
3. Judicial control and prosecutorial supervision over activities and decisions of the executive power.

VII. Parliamentary mechanisms of protecting human rights
1. The institution of the parliamentary plenipotentiary on human rights (ombudsman). History of the emergence of this institution in foreign countries and in Russia.
2. Specialized committees and commissions on human rights.

VIII. Types of basic human rights and freedoms foreseen in the Russian Constitution. Means of protecting individual rights and freedoms.
1. Priority of constitutional rights and freedoms. Unwritten rights and freedoms. Principle of equality of all before the law.
2. Right to life. Problem of preserving the death penalty in acting Russian legislation. International obligations of the Russian Federation.
3. Dignity, freedom and inviolability of the individual.
4. Freedom of choice of language and national affiliation.
5. Human rights and cutting off racism. Legislative bases for the struggle against extremism.
6. Protection of private life, and private transmission of information.
7. Inviolability of abode.
8. Freedom of entry and exit. Freedom of movement.
9. Freedom of conscience and religion.
10. Freedom of thought and speech. Freedom of mass information. Prohibition of censorship.
11. Freedom of assembly, meeting and demonstrations.
12. Election law and civil rights.
13. Freedom of economic activity. Private property. Land ownership.
14. Freedom of labor. Order of solving labor disputes. Protecting rights in the sphere of labor relations: legislation and practice in applying it. The practice of the Constitutional Court.
15. Social guarantees.
16. Creative freedom.
17. Right to a favorable environment.
18. Protecting health.
19. Right to education
20. Right to housing.

Lectures Constitutional Bases of Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms (Russian And Foreign Legislation) (only in Russian)