The Institute for Human Rights has a long experience of offering a wide range of international courses for students, researchers and professionals.
The Institute for Human Rights has organized intensive short courses in human rights, with internationally renowned human rights experts as teachers.
Between 1991 and 2013, the Advanced Course on the International Protection of Human Rights was arranged annually, providing a general overview of international human rights protection. Numerous active international human rights scholars and practitioners attended this course. The highly acclaimed Advanced Course on Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights was arranged on a close to annual basis between 2006–2019. In addition to these, the Institute has focused on offering advanced courses related to specific topics, among them, refugee law, law and development, and realizing human rights through criminal law.
Lately, our focus has been primarily on short-term courses for targeted groups as well as open online courses.
For more information contact us at: courses.imr@abo.fi
Open courses
The Business of Human Rights, January-May 2025, micro-credentials courses, available online at DigiCampus.fi.
Short courses for targeted groups
Ihmisoikeudet ja humanitaarinen oikeus aseellisissa konflikteissa (Human rights and humanitarian law in armed conflicts), 18-19 November 2024, two-day training for Finnish OSCE officials, in Helsinki.
Kunniaan liittyvän väkivallan konkreettinen ehkäisy viranomaisnäkökulmasta (Combating honour-based violence), 29 August 2019, training for civil servants, in Turku.
Intensive courses
Advanced Course on Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 11-15 November 2019
Contemporary Challenges to International Human Rights Law, 27 November – 1 December 2017
Law, Development and Human Rights, 7-21 August 2015
Realizing Human Rights Through Criminal Law, 18-22 August 2014