[hr-education] Oak Human Rights Fellowship - Focus on East and Southeast Asia

Dear Colleagues,

I am the Director of the Oak Institute for the Study of International
Human Rights at Colby College and I would like to solicit your assistance
in our annual search for the Oak Human Rights Fellow.
	
I have copied the announcement below.  You can also access it at
http://www.colby.edu/oak.

Each year, we host a human rights professional doing on-the-ground work at
some level of personal risk and organize a lecture series around his or
her area of expertise.  The purpose of the fellowship is to offer
activists a respite from their work and spend a semester as a
scholar-in-residence at the College, exposing campus community to the
issues surrounding the human rights issues on which the Fellow works.  
Further details are provided in the enclosed brochure or at our website at
www.colby.edu/oak

The fellowship has a different geographical focus each year so we can more
effectively coordinate the Fellowship with our curriculum.  This year, we
are looking for a human rights professional from EAST or SOUTHEAST ASIA.

In conducting our annual search, we rely heavily on nominations from NGOs,
academics, journalists, and human rights lawyers, since these are the
people most likely to know of the work of on-the-ground professionals.

Since you your organization has been active in working on human rights
issues , I would like to solicit your assistance in disseminating the
announcement to your membership.  You should also feel free to nominate
anyone or forward the announcement to anyone in the field who could help
us.

Whatever assistance you might provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

	Ken Rodman


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	OAK FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT


	The Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights
annually hosts an Human Rights Fellow to teach and conduct research while
at residence in the College and organizes lectures and other events
centered around the fellow's area of expertise. The purpose of the
fellowship is to offer an opportunity for prominent practitioners in
international human rights to take a sabbatical leave from their work and
spend a period of up to a semester as a scholar-in-residence at the
College. This provides the Fellow time for reflection, research, and
writing. While all human rights practitioners are eligible, we especially
encourage applications from those who are currently or were recently
involved in "on-the-ground" work at some level of personal risk. The Oak
Fellow's responsibilities include regular meetings with students either
through formal classes or informal discussion groups and assistance in
shaping a lecture series or symposium associated with the particular
aspect of human rights of interest to the fellow. The fellow also is
expected to participate in the intellectual life of the campus and enable
our students to work or study with a professional in the human rights
field. The Fellow will receive a stipend and College fringe benefits, plus
round-trip transportation from the fellow's home site, housing for a
family, use of a car, and meals on campus. The Fellow will also receive
research support, including office space, secretarial support, computer
and library facilities, and a student assistant. The Fellowship is awarded
for the fall semester (Sept.-Dec.) each year. Following the period of the
award, the fellow is expected to return to her or his human rights work.

	The search for the Fall 2004 Oak Fellowship will focus on a human
rights practitioner doing human rights work in East and Southeast Asia
(i.e., China, Japan, North and South Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, East
Timor, Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam,
Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong).  If you want more information or application
forms, you can either access our webpage at http://www.colby.edu/oak or
contact us at <oakhr@colby.edu>.



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