Information Package / Course Catalogue
| Human Rights Law (Non-Thesis) | |||||
| Master | Length of the Programme: 1.5 | Number of Credits: 90 | TR-NQF-HE: Level 7 | QF-EHEA: Second Cycle | EQF: Level 7 |
Ders Genel Tanıtım Bilgileri
| School/Faculty/Institute | Graduate School | ||||
| Course Code | HUK 565 | ||||
| Course Title in English | Gender and Human Rights | ||||
| Course Title in Turkish | Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve İnsan Hakları | ||||
| Language of Instruction | TR | ||||
| Type of Course | Lecture | ||||
| Level of Course | Seçiniz | ||||
| Semester | Spring | ||||
| Contact Hours per Week |
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| Estimated Student Workload | 148 hours per semester | ||||
| Number of Credits | 6 ECTS | ||||
| Grading Mode | Standard Letter Grade | ||||
| Pre-requisites | None | ||||
| Expected Prior Knowledge | none | ||||
| Co-requisites | None | ||||
| Registration Restrictions | graduate students only | ||||
| Overall Educational Objective | The goal of this course is to teach human rights master's program students how to use human rights texts and tools from a gender perspective. ability to analyze from a legal perspective and to handle and apply human rights norms with gender sensitivity as a legal practitioner is to gain the ability. | ||||
| Course Description | The course ‘gender and human rights’ aims to critically assess the evolution of the international human rights regime from a gendered perspective. Fort his purpose, first it will discuss the implications of the public/private divide for the international human rights law and will study the gendered categories of ‘right’, ‘damage’ and ‘violation’. The course will further explore the transformative interventions of the second wave feminism and feminist legal movement which resulted in important legal accomplishments for women’ rights. The course will also examine legal progress accomplished at the national level for gender equality, by drawing specifically on the case law of the Constitutional Court. | ||||
| Course Description in Turkish | Toplumsal cinsiyet ve insan hakları dersi uluslararası insan hakları hukukunun gelişimini toplumsal cinsiyet perspektifinden eleştirel bir bakış açısıyla analiz etmeyi amaçlar. Bunun için ilk olarak kamusal/özel ayrımının uluslararası insan hakları rejiminin işleyişinde yarattığı dışlama biçimleri ele alınacak; ihlal, zarar ve hak kategorilerinin cinsiyetlendirilmiş tanımlarına bakılacaktır. Sonrasında ise, özellikle ikinci dalga feminizmin ve feminist hukuk hareketinin etkisiyle uluslararası insan hakları rejimini dönüştürmek için yapılan müdahaleler ve elde edilen hukuki kazanımlar incelenecektir. Ders kapsamında ayrıca ulusal hukukta, bilhassa Anayasa Mahkemesi önüne gelen bireysel başvurularda toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliği adına elde edilen kazanımlar da ele alınacaktır. |
Course Learning Outcomes and CompetencesUpon successful completion of the course, the learner is expected to be able to:1) Learn the public/private distinction that shapes the field of law in liberal political theory 2) To comprehend the decisive impact of the public/private distinction on the development of international human rights through exemplary texts and mechanisms 3) To see the gender-exclusive language, structure and functioning of the first modern human rights law texts and mechanisms 4) To comprehend the gains achieved in the name of gender equality through legal interventions against the exclusionary structure of the human rights regime and the rights claims that have gained normative recognition 5) To gain the ability to effectively apply norms in practice about Human rights that secure gender equality through assignments and presentations that will be prepared in the field of gender and human rights. |
| Program Learning Outcomes/Course Learning Outcomes | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1) Build on the theoretical and practical skills obtained during the undergraduate degree for the subjects within the domain of human rights law. | |||||
| 2) Keep updated concerning developments in jurisprudence and legislation. | |||||
| 3) Diagnose sources of legal disputes in the domain of human rights law, and applying rules and regulations for solving these disputes. | |||||
| 4) Critically analyze existing regulations and theory and proposing new insights to old and new problems occurred in the domain of human rights law. | |||||
| 5) Ability to describe processes and theories both verbally and in writing on national and international platforms within the field of human rights law. | |||||
| 6) Awareness of social, scientific and ethical values regarding human rights law field all related professional activities. | |||||
| 7) Ability to communicate in English both verbally and in writing at European Language Portfolio General Level B2. | |||||
| 8) Understanding of social and environmental aspects of legislative and jurisprudential measures and theories. |
Relation to Program Outcomes and Competences
| N None | S Supportive | H Highly Related |
| Program Outcomes and Competences | Level | Assessed by | |
| 1) | Build on the theoretical and practical skills obtained during the undergraduate degree for the subjects within the domain of human rights law. | H | HW,Presentation |
| 2) | Keep updated concerning developments in jurisprudence and legislation. | H | HW,Presentation |
| 3) | Diagnose sources of legal disputes in the domain of human rights law, and applying rules and regulations for solving these disputes. | H | HW,Presentation |
| 4) | Critically analyze existing regulations and theory and proposing new insights to old and new problems occurred in the domain of human rights law. | S | Select,HW,Presentation |
| 5) | Ability to describe processes and theories both verbally and in writing on national and international platforms within the field of human rights law. | H | HW,Presentation |
| 6) | Awareness of social, scientific and ethical values regarding human rights law field all related professional activities. | S | HW,Presentation |
| 7) | Ability to communicate in English both verbally and in writing at European Language Portfolio General Level B2. | N | |
| 8) | Understanding of social and environmental aspects of legislative and jurisprudential measures and theories. | S | HW,Presentation |
| Prepared by and Date | ZEYNEP ÖZEN , February 2024 |
| Course Coordinator | AKTS1 |
| Semester | Spring |
| Name of Instructor | Asst. Prof. Dr. HÜLYA DİNÇER |
Course Contents
| Week | Subject |
| 1) | The public/private distinction and the exclusivism of modern democracy theory |
| 2) | Reflection of the public/private distinction on liberal legal theory and practice: 'the rights of man' |
| 3) | Gender in international human rights law: Patriarchal categories of rights, violations and harms Women's 'human rights': early feminist interventions in the international human rights regime |
| 4) | CEDAW, human rights judiciary, Istanbul Convention and gender |
| 5) | Binary gender regime, gender identity and human rights |
| 6) | Humanitarian law, international criminal justice and gender |
| 7) | transitional justice and gender |
| 8) | Legal achievements in the field of gender equality and gender-based violence in Turkey |
| 9) | Selection of homework topics |
| 10) | homework tracking |
| 11) | homework tracking |
| 12) | homework tracking |
| 13) | presentations |
| 14) | presentations |
| 15) | presentation |
| 16) | presentation |
| Required/Recommended Readings | Required Readings -Pateman, Carole, ‘Kardeşler Arası Toplumsal Sözleşme’, Sivil Toplum ve Devlet, J. Keane (der), Yedikıta yay.2004, s. 119-146. -Phillips, Anne, Demokrasinin Cinsiyeti, Metis Yayınları, 2012, s. 38-55. -Bora, Aksu, ‘Kamusal Alan Sahiden Kamusal mı?’, içinde Kamusal Alan, Meral Özbek (ed.), Hil Yayın, 2004, s. 529-538. -Oder, Bertil Emrah, ‘Kadınların İnsan Haklarının Uluslararası Düzeyde Korunması’, içinde, Kadın Hakları, Uluslararası Hukuk ve Uygulama, Ayata, Dilek, Oder (ed.), Bilgi Yayınları, 2010, s. 23-53 - Şimşek Aslı, Bir İnsan Hakları İhlali ve Ayrımcılık Biçimi Olarak Toplumsal Cinsiyet Rolleri ve Kalıp Yargıları: CEDAW Çerçevesinde Bir İnceleme, İnönü Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, 2020, s. 496- 513. Dinçer, Hülya, ‘Geçiş Dönemi Adaleti ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet: Kimin için Adalet, Kimin Hakikati?’, GSÜHFD, Cilt: 13, Sayı:1 | Ocak 2014 , s. 227-260. Recommended Readings -MacKinnon, Catherine, Feminist Bir Devlet Kuramına Doğru, İstanbul, 2003, Metis Yayınları. - Uygur, Gülriz: “İstanbul Sözleşmesi Işığında Ailenin Korunması ve Kadına Yönelik Şiddetin Önlenmesine Dair Kanun’un Temel Yaklaşımı”, Şiddetin Cinsiyetli Yüzleri, Yarar, Betül (der.), İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2015, s.193-211. - Valji, Nahla, Bir Fırsat Penceresi: Kadınlar için Geçiş Dönemi Adaleti Çalışmaları, Hakikat, Adalet ve Hafıza Çalışmaları, 2010, s. 1-27. -Karan Ulaş, “Bireysel Başvuru Kararlarında Ayrımcılık Yasağı ve Eşitlik İlkesi”, Anayas Yargısı Dergisi, Sayı: 32, Anayasa Mahkemeleri Yayınları, Ankara. -Kurnaz Işıl, İstanbul Sözleşmesi Yaşatır: Türkiye’nin İstanbul Sözleşmesi’yle İmtihanı, içinde Kadın Yazıları, Türkan Yalçın (der.), - Kurnaz, Işıl, LGBTQ Haklarının Korunmasında Anayasa Yargısı ve Stratejik İnsan Hakları Davaları: Türkiye Örneği,TTB Dergisi 2020 (148), s. 9-46. -Avrupa Konseyi İnsan Hakları Komiseri, İnsan Hakları ve Cinsiyet Kimliği, 2009, https://rm.coe.int/insan-haklari-ve-cinsiyet-kimligi-insan-haklar-komiseri-nin-tematik- ra/16806da64d - Ataman, Hakan, LGBTT Hakları İnsan Haklarıdır, İnsan Hakları Gündemi Derneği Yayınları, 1. Baskı, Ankara, 2009, https://insanhaklariizleme.org/vt/yayin_view.php?editid1=349 -Uluslararası İnsan Hakları Mevzuatının Cinsel Yönelim ve Cinsiyet Kimliği Alanlarında Uygulanmasına İlişkin İlkeler, http://www.kaosgldernegi.org/resim/yayin/dl/yogyakarta_ilkeleri.pdf -Güner, Umut et al., Türkiye’de Cinsel Yönelim veya Cinsiyet Kimliği Temelinde Ayrımcılığın İzlenmesi Raporu, 2010. https://insanhaklarimerkezi.bilgi.edu.tr/media/uploads/2015/02/24/Cinsel_Yonelim_veya_Cinsiyet _Kimligi_Izleme_Raporu.pdf https://toplumsalcinsiyetvehukuk.com/ https://kaosgldernegi.org/e-kutuphane https://dspace.ceid.org.tr/xmlui/ : Cinsiyet Eşitliği İzleme Derneği E-kütüphanesi | ||||||||||||
| Teaching Methods | Lectures, academic research, homework preparation and presentation | ||||||||||||
| Homework and Projects | assignment (%70) | ||||||||||||
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| Course Administration |
dincerhu@mef.edu.tr |
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ECTS Student Workload Estimation
| Activity | No/Weeks | Hours | Calculation | ||||
| No/Weeks per Semester | Preparing for the Activity | Spent in the Activity Itself | Completing the Activity Requirements | ||||
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 98 | ||
| Presentations / Seminar | 1 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 24 | ||
| Homework Assignments | 1 | 26 | 26 | ||||
| Total Workload | 148 | ||||||
| Total Workload/25 | 5.9 | ||||||
| ECTS | 6 | ||||||