Hello, and welcome to the final week,

of International human rights Law

Prospects and Challenges.
This week we focus on, current and future
human rights controversies.
There's so many, topics that we could
discuss,
in this week of the course, but I've
decided
to focus on, just a few, to give you some
additional flavor of the kinds of issues.
And challenges that, human right advocates
around the world are facing.
So, the first part of the week we will
focus in on, Human Rights NGO's.
We'll talk briefly about, the kinds of
advocacy strategies that NGO's use, and
then you
will be able to watch an interview,
with Professor Jayne Huckerby, who is the
director.
Of Duke Law's International human rights
Law Clinic.
And she will explain some of, the modes of
advocacy that she employs in her work.
With NGOs, with international
organizations.
And with students here, at Duke
University.
Then we'll turn to three different topics,
that
are quite diverse, but that have many
contemporary.
Residences for, international human rights
law and international politics in general.
First, we'll discuss the issue
of extraordinary renditions, and coercive
interrogations.
This is the practice whereby individuals
who are suspected of,
being involved in terrorism or are
otherwise thought to be.
Threats national security are rendered or,
transferred from one country to another.
Often under circumstances in which there's
a, serious risk that
they might be subject to torture or, other
ill treatment.
We'll see how, a UN treaty body,
the committee against torture, has
addressed this issue.
We'll then turn to issues, of the rights
of LGBT persons, and international human
rights law.
Where the focus on some, of the recent
developments in the UN human
rights system, and also regionally in
Latin America, in Africa, and in Europe.
We'll conclude this week, with a
discussion, of transnational corporations

and human rights.

This is a cutting edge topic, because,
as you have learned, international human
rights law
is primarily a body of rules that imposes
obligations on, states, on governments,
and their officials.
It does not impose obligations directly
on, corporations, except in very limited
circumstances.
Nevertheless, corporations are, an
increasingly important
and influential actor, on, the world
stage.
And there have been a number of
recent developments seeking to, create a
framework,
a legal framework, for regulating
corporations, and
the human rights impact, that they have.
We'll conclude this week, and the course.
With a bit of a retrospective of some of
the
key principles, relating to international
human rights law and it's institutions.
I hope you find these topics, to be
interesting.