CZECH REPUBLIC
Faculty of Law
Human Rights Education Centre (Prague)
Institute
of State and Law (Prague)
Czech
Helsinki Committee
The Faculty of Law is engaged in the following activities: research, training, organisation of conferences, documentation/information, publication, radio and TV programmes on human rights and offers the following courses: universal and regional instruments, rights of people, refugee rights, rights of the child.
Current topics of research include: ‘The 1950 European Convention on Human Rights’, ‘Humanitarian Law’, ‘International refugee law’, ‘The rights of the child’.
The Centre conducts research on problems related to human rights education, citizenship, tolerance and democracy. The Centre is engaged in research, training, documentation/information, research promotion, organisation of conferences, publication and consultation. Its current research projects are: ‘Personal responsibility, human rights and tolerance’ and ‘Education for the 21st century’.
The Centre offers the course ‘Teachers Training Course on Culture of Human Behaviour’.
The Institute carries out comparative research on human rights and the democratisation process. Currently research deals with: ‘Constitutional and legal guarantees of human rights: their sociological aspects’, ‘Third generation of human rights: development and implementation’, ‘Concept of teaching and education in human rights’ ‘Human rights and the development of political and legal culture in post-totalitarian states’, ‘Comparative research in human rights and their link with the development of democratic constitutional principles’.
The Institute offers courses on: regional and universal international standards setting instruments; verification and control procedures for human rights: the United Nations, and its specialised agencies and regional level bodies; human rights violations; human rights education; protection of special groups, minority rights and refugee rights, historical development and philosophy of human rights.