Fall 2025 Human Rights Studies offer two on-line courses to give you the opportunity to study human rights on themes not offered in our regular courses or programmes. The courses are in English.  Application opens March 17 and you apply through antagning.se

Explore Women's Rights and Human Rights through a Decolonial Perspective.

This course provides an opportunity to into women's and human rights through a decolonial perspective, highlighting the work of feminist delve scholars from the Global South. By drawing on theories from Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Indigenous communities, you will explore how rights are understood and advocated for beyond Western frameworks.The course challenges dominant human rights paradigms by analyzing how colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism have influenced mainstream discourse. Through readings, case studies, and debates, students learn to appreciate context- specific approaches that emphasize community, cultural values, and lived experiences as alternatives to hegemonic frameworks. 

Course period: 2025-09-08 - 2025-10-31
Credits: 3
Teaching: Online
Language of instructions: English
Apply via (link) antagning.se

This course introduces you to the law of state responsibility and the relation to the law of human rights.

Students will examine customary international law as a very large and complex system in which an increasing number of negotiated agreements are added. An overview is provided of the public international law system as a whole and expectations and ideas regarding actors, legal positivism and negotiations are problematized. In particular, the course focuses on customary law, treaty law, states sovereignty and state responsibility, which are all part of public international law and central to the functioning of human rights law in the international legal system.

Course period: 2025-11-03 - 2026-01-19
Credits: 3
Teaching: Online
Language of instructions: English 
Apply via (link) antagning.se