The Human Rights Center (HRC) at Beirut Arab University concluded its summer school which focused this year on the issue of immigration and social justice and was attended by Arab and foreign students.
The one-week workshop which started on 28/9/2015 and ended on 5/10/2015 aimed at enhancing students’ legal, historical and cultural competence on this phenomenon affecting both European and Arab societies. The workshop was entitled “Global Justice & Migration: Middle Eastern & European Perspectives”, with the participation of 36 students from Beirut Arab University, the University of Cologne, Hamad Bin Khalifa University – Doha. These universities collaborate in the field of training students in human rights issues.
The lectures and workshops dealt with the laws, theories, history and literatures of immigration, and were followed by field visits to the Migrants Center at Caritas and the Palestinian Organization for Human Rights at Mar Elias Camp, for a better understanding of the social and legal circumstances of immigrants and refugees.
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