Human Rights & International Politics (MRes)

Human Rights in Glasgow

While studying here, you can benefit from various organisations within and beyond the University:

• The Glasgow Human Rights Network
  This brings together 75 academics from the University along with another 75 individuals from other universities in Scotland, civil society organisations, and governmental agencies to develop research and teaching initiatives.
• The Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network
• The Glasgow Centre for International Development
• The annual International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.  As well as screening a wide variety of human rights related movies and documentaries, the festival offers talks, seminars and student workshops, attracting students from all the Universities in the city.
• In 2010, students were able to attend the 10th International Conference of National Human Rights Institutions held in the Main Chamber of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh and heard from a number of important speakers, including Navi Pillay (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights), John Ruggie (the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Business and Human Rights), and Mary Robinson (former President of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and current President of Realizing Rights).

Students on the programme come from diverse backgrounds. Over the last two years, for example, the MSc Human Rights & International Politics has hosted students from 16 different countries:  Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Japan, Malawi, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, and Zimbabwe. Students on the programme also share classes with students on other programmes, which contributes to a lively and cosmopolitan learning environment.

Students go on to do a wide variety of things after they graduate. Recent students the MSc Human Rights & International Politics have, for example:

• done internships in Geneva with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and the International Labour Organisation
  interned with the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the European Union
• worked with a variety of nongovernmental NGOs, such as Oxfam, Al-Marsad Arab Centre for Human Rights, Burma Volunteer Program, and Penal Reform International
• pursued PhD study.