Программа дисциплины “ Family and child’s protection in modern world”  для направления 03. 0200. 68«Политология»

1Scope of the program and compliance with the internal university standards

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  National Research University - Higher School of Economics,
  
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  degree program 030200.68 ‘Political Science’, master’s program ‘Political Analysis and Public Policy’,
  
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  Master program curriculum as of 2012.
  

2Course goals

3Competences to be formed as a result of course studying

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  to have a knowledge of the main problems and challenges in the modern world in the field of family and child’s protection; the international human rights treaties covering the issues of the family and child’s protection, their scope and mechanisms of implementation; functions of international and national institutions of human rights protection in the field, their advantages and disadvantages; interrelation between international and domestic human rights standards and mechanisms of the family and child’s protection;
  

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  to be able to distinguish between the violation of the family interests and violation of the rights and interests of the family members; identify the cases of the conflict of interests in between the family members; to identify cases of human rights violations an distinguish them from other legal disputes; to critically access the cases of human rights violations in the field taking into the account tests and positions developed by the international human rights protection bodies; to identify factors important for the protection of the family and child in Russia;
  

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  to have skills to identify the jurisdiction of the human rights violation and bodies authorized to protect a particular right both on national and international level; to analyze the activities of the domestic and international bodies of human rights protection and their effectiveness; to analyze the compliance of state human rights policy in the field of the family and child’s protection with its international obligations and Constitution of the Russian Federation.