Centre for Human Rights, Himachal Pradesh National Law University announces a Faculty Development Programme (FDP) to be conducted online (over the GoogleMeet platform) from the 5th of April- 11th of April 2021. The theme of the Programme is “Human Rights in Contemporary India: Issues and Challenges”. The programme is meant to serve as a platform for apprising teachers and professional with the latest developments in the area of Human Rights in the country. Recent events of paramount significance in the socio-political realms have tended to reshape our conceptions of Human Rights and it is with a view to understand thesedevelopments that the FDP has been announced.
About HPNLU
Himachal Pradesh National Law University was established in the year 2016 and is currently in the fourth year of its inception. Under the able guidance of Professor Nishtha Jaswal, vice-chancellor of the University, HPNLU has made tremendous progress as an institution dedicated to the cause of legal education and research. The University today boasts of a very bright bunch of faculty members and students. During the past four years, the University has organized two international conferences, a faculty development programme, a capacity building programme, various seminars, colloquia and special lecture series.
About the Centre
Centre for Human Rights was established in the year 2019 with the aim to promote the study of the important issue of Human Rights and to conduct research on the challenges encountered in making these rights available to all. The Centre proposes to offer degree, certificate and diploma courses in Human Rights and to undertake research projects dealing with these challenges. The Centre very recently organised a colloquium and a series of special lectures.
About the FDP
The FDP has been organised to create and generate awareness about various facets of Human Rights. The week-long programme hopes to bring together experts from various areas such as academics, practitioners, judges, police officers, prison officials in order to enable a discussion of the latest events of significance that have made an impact on our notion of Human Rights.
The FDP will cover a vast array of areas around which the individual sessions will be organised. The themes in the programme will include topics from:
- Human Rights and Marginalised Groups
- Police and Human Rights
- Judiciary and Human Rights
- Human Rights Commission
- Human Rights and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Human Rights and Political Processes
- Prisoners and Human Rights
- Human Rights and Trans genders
- Human Rights of Children and Women
- Human Rights of Religious Minorities
- Human Rights of the Especially Abled
- Human Rights and Education
- Human Rights and Health
- Human Rights and Poverty
- Human Rights and Democracy
The Programme will have two sessions every day. In each of these sessions, there would be special lectures delivered by experts from various fields. The Morning sessions will be from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The afternoon sessions will be from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Certificates of participation will be issued to candidates on their successful completion of the FDP and after filling up of feedback forms. The total number of seats for the FDP is 50. Confirmation of participation will be done on a first come first serve basis.
Interested candidates may send a copy of their resume along with a cover letter to the Director, Centre for Human Rights, Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla 171014 or at ruchisapahia@hpnlu.ac.in.
Fee for attending the FDP shall be Rupees 2000/- that needs to be submitted through a Demand Draft drawn in favour of the Registrar, Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla or through NEFT (A/c Number 14100110051955, IFSC – UCBA0001410, UCO Bank, Branch- Halog, Dhami). Candidates need to fill the enclosed FDP Registration form latest by the 31st of March 2021. Candidates need to submit a No Objection Certificate from their employers before or at the time of filling up the Google Forms (HERE ).