Overview of contents and certificates of attendance
This course focuses on the international and European criteria and framework for protecting migrants and refugees. A special emphasis is put on the Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees (1951), the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), and some other protection international and European legislation.
The course is divided into 2 lessons. No certificate of participation could be earned in this course.
Learning objectives
- to present several legislative documents regulating the protection of migrants and refugees
- to discuss the issues covered by the regulation and introduced by various bodies taking care of refugees and migrants
Target groups
- policymakers
- volunteering organisations
- social workers
Course creator
The course contents were created in the CiSoTRA project financed under Erasmus+ KA3 action. Partners involved in the project who also contributed to this course were International School for Social and Business Studies from Slovenia, Pegaso Online University, Italy, Osservatorio CSIG (CSIG) from Italy, Institut für sozialwissenschaftliche Beratung GmbH (ISOB) from Germany, and Action Synergy SA (AS) from Greece.
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