Class Human Rights and Fundamental Rights

This CU provides an analysis of the protection of human rights, both internationally and nationally. It presents the sources, categories, content, regime and limits of human rights, as well as the obligations of States within the framework of the main implementation mecahisms provided for in both international and domestic law.

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Part I: human rights at the international level 1. Overview of the internationalization process of human rights. 2. Classification of human rights. 3. Regional protection systems: European, Interamerican and African. 4.The universal protection system: human rights treaty mechanisms and the UN Charter system. Part II: fundamental rights at the domestic level 1. Fundamental rights in the 1976 Portuguese Constitution and their dual nature: subjective and objective. 2. The numerus apertus clause of article 16, paragraph 1, of the Portuguese Constitution. 3. Structure and types of fundamental subjective rights: rights, freedom and guarantees vs. social rights. 4. The legal regime of fundamental rights. 5. The limits of fundamental rights. 

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