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Postgraduate Fellowship Course: TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE
FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION

We are pleased to send you information about the Postgraduate
Fellowship Course on Transparency, Accountability and the Fight
against Corruption (Diploma de Postítulo en Transparencia,
Accountability y Lucha contra la Corrupción), organized by the Human
Rights Center (Centro de Derechos Humanos – CDH) of the University of
Chile's Law School. This capacity-building program, which will take
place from 10 March to 25 July 2008, will combine online teaching (17
weeks) with classroom-based teaching and other academic activities
(two weeks at the beginning and one week at the end of the course), in
Santiago de Chile. The program, designed to train Latin American
professionals working in the public sector, the private sector, civil
society organizations and the international arena, will provide
participants with an important theoretical foundation
of fundamental concepts in this field. They will study the principal
areas and problems corruption presents to establishing a
well-functioning democracy and to the exercise of fundamental rights.
Likewise, they will examine the various strategies that have been
applied, not only to eliminate this phenomenon, but also to build
democratic
societies that are more transparent, participatory, and respectful of
human rights.The program will offer a limited number of scholarships.
Fluency in Spanish is essential.
Deadline for applications: November 5, 2007
We would like to ask for your help in disseminating this information
through American Bar Assoiation Human Rights Committee. By airmail we
are sending you some posters and leaflets regarding the course. In
addition, it would be of great help if you could announce the course
on your organization's website, and create a direct link to
http://www.derecho.uchile.cl/cdh where detailed information may be found.