Approximate Time to Complete Module:	3 hours (with break)

• Participants will know that there is strong grounding in international law for the respect for women's human rights;
• Participants will understand how IHL and HR laws and standards are relevant to PSOs;
• Participants will understand that women and men in affected populations may not always respond or react in ways that they will predict (or that peacekeepers would assume are 'normal');
• Participants will have an understanding of gender-based violence as both a violation of human rights and a reflection of inequality between women and men;
• Participants will understand that respect for women's human rights has both individual and collectives implications (for their personal behaviour as well as the programmes and policies of their organisation).

 Human Rights methodology (pdf) [ 93KB ]

1. Introduction
2. Exercise 1: Violations of Human Rights
3. Exercise 2: Dobrilla Brackovich
4. Central Presentation I - Slides 2-9
5. Plenary Group Exercise 3: Standards in PSOs
6. Exercise 4: Foca/Zaire/Kosovo case studies
7. Central Presentation II- Slide 10
8. Exercise 5: Codes of Conduct discussion
9. Conclusion - Slide 11

 Presentation Notes (pdf) [ 156KB ]
 Exercise Notes (pdf) [ 99KB ]
 Learning Notes (pdf) [ 6KB ]

 Human Rights Slides (powerpoint) [ 4463KB ]
Exercise 2: Scenario Cards

 What Is International Humanitarian Law? (pdf) [ 122KB ]
 Sexual Violence (pdf) [ 101KB ]
 Foca/Zaire/Kosovo Case Studies (pdf) [ 88KB ]

 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (pdf) [ 73KB ]
 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (pdf) [ 111KB ]
 Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (pdf) [ 81KB ]
 ICRC Code of Conduct for Combatants (pdf) [ 77KB ]
 UN Codes of Conduct for Peacekeepers (pdf) [ 1664KB ]
 Amnesty International Program for Implementing Human Rights in Peacekeeping Operations (pdf) [ 142KB ]
 Protection of Women in Armed Conflict (pdf) [ 186KB ]