Indian Academy of International Law And Diplomacy - ISIL

Indian Academy of International Law And Diplomacy (ISIL), offers courses in Law and Human Rights. The Teaching wing of the ISIL was founded in 1964 to further the objective of dissemination of knowledge of International Law. It is a matter of pride for the Academy that its post-graduate diploma courses are not only rated highly in India but also through out the world. Human Rights may be said to be those fundamental rights, which every man or woman in any part of the world should be deemed to be entitled to, by virtue of having been born as a human being. Persistence, vigilance and living actions by the people themselves for the protection of human rights are essential. Indeed, an essential pre-requisite for progressive realization of human rights is popular awareness of and support for universally accepted human rights norms and standards. It is in the hope of spreading human rights awareness that the ISIL has started the Post Graduate Diploma Coarse in Human Rights, international Humanitarian and Refugee Laws. ISIL's ten-month Post Graduate course, which was started in the year 1999, runs in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC). The whole course is conducted over two semesters - August to December and January to April. The said course comprises of three papers. The section on humanitarian law touches upon the development of International Humanitarian Law, Hague Conventions, four Geneva Conventions, 1949 and Additional Protocol I and II, 1977 and their implementation measures. The section on refugee law covers the historical development of refugee law, identification and determination of refugees, 1951 Convention on Refugee and its Protocol of 1967.