[hr-education-na] Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship Program (2007)

Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship - 2007

The Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship Program encourages residents of
the Upper Midwest - including students, teachers, lawyers, health
professionals, community leaders, and others - to undertake practical
experiences/internships in human rights organizations, locally,
nationally, and internationally.

The Fellowship Program is designed to promote social justice by providing
practical training in the varied aspects of human rights work worldwide.
The fellowship placement provides both training for the individual and
assistance to the host organization, as well as fosters links between
communities in the Upper Midwest and human rights/social justice
organizations around the world. Participants return with a stronger
commitment to a lifetime of work in human rights/social justice and
contribute to bringing human rights concerns home to communities in the
Upper Midwest.

Over the past 17 years, the Human Rights Center has sponsored 330 interns
and fellows to work with human rights/social justice organizations in more
than 80 countries and awards approximately 25 fellowship grants each year.
In 2006, the Human Right's Center's Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship
Program awarded grants to 28 individuals committed to the promotion of
human rights and social justice.

Grant details: 
* Awards are competitive; approximately twenty grants will be awarded for 
the 2007 program. 
* Fellowships should be a minimum of 10 weeks in duration. 
* Grants will ordinarily range from $1,000 to $4,500, averaging about 
$3,200 and are intended to cover food, lodging, and transportation during 
the fellowship experience. 
* Applications must be received by Monday, February 26, 2007, at 4:00 p.m. 
* Decisions will be made by April 1, 2007. 

For more information and an application, please check out our website at
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/center/uppermidwest/

If you have more questions after reviewing our website, feel free to
contact Kim Walsh at (612) 626-2226 or via email at hrfellow@umn.edu .

Kimberly Walsh 
Human Rights Fellowship & Training Coordinator 
University of Minnesota Human Rights Center 
phone: 612.626.2226 
fax: 612.626.7592 
Human Rights Library: www1.umn.edu/humanrts 





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