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, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita
Useful for: LL.B. (3-year and 5-year integrated), UGC NET Law, CLAT PG, University semester exams and Judiciary aspirants.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Human Rights
03:28 Fundamental Rights versus Human Rights
10:38 Application of Treaties in Indian Courts
17:15 Jus Cogens and Peremptory Norms
22:18 Reservations to Human Rights Treaties
33:09 Three Generations of Human Rights
36:27 Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and State Responsibility
48:25 Emergency Derogations and Non-Derogable Rights
53:29 Prohibition of Torture and Non-Refoulement
01:00:29 Limitations on Rights and Proportionality Test
01:05:43 UN Framework and Universal Declaration
01:12:45 Human Rights Council and UPR Mechanism
01:18:59 UN Treaty Bodies and Communications
01:24:46 European and Inter-American Regional Systems
01:31:19 Core Treaties ICCPR and ICESCR
01:40:20 Non-Discrimination and Article 26 ICCPR
01:48:29 Direct Indirect and Systemic Discrimination
01:59:38 Torture Prohibition and Genocide Convention
02:05:18 Protection of Human Rights Act 1993
02:15:25 Indian Judicial Enforcement and Public Interest Litigation
02:23:34 Special Protective Enactments in India
02:30:39 National Commissions for SCs and STs
02:46:21 Transgender Rights and Decriminalization of Section 377
02:53:42 Prisoners Rights and Custodial Safeguards
03:03:54 Course Revision and Exam Strategy
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