Social Rights

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

none

Course Contents

Historical development and constitutionalization process of social rights, social rights orders in various political systems, relationship between social and classical rights, social rights in international law, UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, European Social Charter, Turkey's social rights system, Turkish Constitutional Court's interpretation about welfare state and social rights, judgments by the European Court of Human Rights on this issue, the effect of neoliberal economic policies to social rights, presentations on some selected examples of social rights such as right to work, right to health, right to food, right to minimum guaranteed income as a new social right, etc.

Weekly Schedule

1) Introduction to the course and presentation of the course materials
2) The concept of human rights and its historical development
3) The early steps taken internationally for the protection of human rights in the first half of the 20th century
4) The emergence and development of international human rights law after 1945
5) Human rights protection in the United Nations
6) Universal Declaration of Human Rights
7) UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
8) UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
9) International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
10) Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
11) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
12) The UN non treaty-based mechanisms for human rights protection
13) Regional protection systems of human rights
14) An introduction to the Council of Europe and its human rights conventions
15) European Convention on Human Rights and its protocols
16) The protection system of the European Convention on Human Rights
17) Procedure of the individual applications to the European Court of Human Rights
18) Right to life in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights
19) Prohibition of torture in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights
20) Right to liberty and security in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights
21) Right to a fair trial in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights
22) Right to respect for private and family life in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights
23) Freedom of expression in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights
24) Freedom of assembly and association in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights
25) European Social Charter
26) European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
27) Organization of American States and protection of human rights in America
28) African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights

Recommended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Group Study
5) Self Study
6) Problem Solving

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Quiz to Course Grade	50%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	50%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required