International Legal Studies
Making Rights Real: The Ghana ProjectTBA
Professor Lucie White
3 classroom credits 43610-21 Winter
In this Winter Term course, students will assist the Ghana Legal Resources Centre, one of that nation's leading human rights organizations, with a community-based Right to Health project. The partnership between HLS and the LRC on this project began in 2000. Each year a team from law and other disciplines collaborates with the LRC to plan and realize that winter's activities, which seek to make basic health care available to all Ghanaians. The work targets urban and rural areas and combines law, social movement organizing, and grassroots empowerment strategies. The team will hold several meetings at HLS prior to departure. While in Ghana, students will take part in seminars, strategy sessions, and field activities. There will also be time to visit Ghana's many historic and cultural sites and nature reserves. Each student will keep a journal and work with others to write a case study on lawyering for economic and social rights, on the ground. Enrollment is by permission of instructor.
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