• The Master of Art in Human Rights and Social Justice is normally a 2-year program.
  • Students explore themes of human rights and social justice. Students engage with issues of justice, fairness, and decolonization in local, national, and transnational settings.
  • Students examine relevant theoretical approaches such as universalism/relativism, equity, diversity and inclusion, intersectionality, distributive justice, critical race theory, disability theory, feminist analysis, and the role of social and political structures.
  • The foundation's course places emphasis on Indigenous, anti-colonial, decolonizing, antiracist, and global south perspectives.
  • Thematic areas may include practical application of theoretical approaches in international and domestic contexts, such as human rights laws, social movements and activism, decolonization and reconciliation, torture and lack of legal process, refugee and immigrant rights, access to justice, disability rights, governance, and transnational governance, Indigenous rights, and international human rights.




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