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Human Rights Law Complete Course

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This comprehensive course covers Human Rights Law and Practice in depth, detailing the foundational concepts, international treaties, and domestic enforcement mechanisms. You will study key international instruments including the ICCPR, ICESCR, and UN regional human rights bodies alongside India's Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993. The video also delivers a rigorous examination of landmark judgments by the Supreme Court of India and international tribunals on equality, prisoners' rights, non-refoulement, and constitutional safeguards.

In this video you will learn:
• Understand the distinction between human rights and fundamental rights, dualism, and treaty incorporation.
• Master the sources of international human rights law, jus cogens norms, and state responsibility doctrines.
• Learn the architecture of the UN human rights system, charter bodies, UPR, and treaty-monitoring committees.
• Analyze the regional protective mechanisms under the ECtHR and Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
• Examine core international conventions including ICCPR, ICESCR, CEDAW, CRC, and CAT.
• Understand the composition, functions, and limitations of the NHRC, SHRCs, and Human Rights Courts under PHRA 1993.
• Review landmark Indian precedents on undertrial rights, custodial deaths, livelihood, and encounter killings.
• Explore modern frontiers of human rights including AI regulation, corporate accountability, and transgender rights.

Important case laws:
• Jolly George Varghese v Bank of Cochin
• Vishaka v State of Rajasthan (1997)
• Prosecutor v Anto Furundžija (1998)
• Al-Adsani v United Kingdom (2001)
• Additional District Magistrate, Jabalpur v Shivkant Shukla (1976)
• K.S. Puttaswamy v Union of India (2017)
• Velásquez-Rodríguez v Honduras (1988)
• D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal (1996)
• Lt. Col. Nitisha v. Union of India (2021)
• Hussainara Khatoon v. Home Secretary, State of Bihar (1979)
• Olga Tellis v. Bombay Municipal Corporation (1985)
• People's Union for Civil Liberties v. State of Maharashtra (2014)
• National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India (2014)
• Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (2018)
• Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration (1978)

Statutory provisions discussed:
• Article 21, Constitution of India
• Article 253, Constitution of India
• Article 38, Statute of the International Court of Justice
• Article 53, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
• Article 4, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• Article 359, Constitution of India
• Article 7, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• Article 26, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
• Section 2(d), Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993
• Section 3, Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993
• Section 18, Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993
• Section 18A, Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act, 1989
• Section 377, Indian Penal Code
• Section 479, B.N.S.S.

Useful for: LL.B. (3-year and 5-year integrated), UGC NET Law, CLAT PG, University semester exams and Judiciary aspirants.

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