2007-2008 Fellowships in International Human Rights Application Deadline: October 6, 2006 This year Human Rights Watch will award four fellowships to recent graduates of law schools or graduate programs (master's degree and above) in journalism, international relations, area studies, or other relevant disciplines. The Alan R. and Barbara D. Finberg Fellowship is open to any candidate who meets these criteria. The Leonard H. Sandler Fellowship is restricted to graduates of Columbia Law School. The Arthur Helton Fellowship is restricted to graduates of New York University School of Law. The Aryeh Neier Fellowship is a two-year joint fellowship with Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In addition to the fellowships offered by Human Rights Watch, graduates of the Yale University School of Law may apply directly to the law school for the Bernstein Fellowship. Human Rights Watch encourages prospective Bernstein fellows to make arrangements to work with Human Rights Watch and to include those arrangements in their applications to Yale for the fellowship. Fellows work full time for one year at Human Rights Watch, based in New York City or Washington, D.C. (As noted above, the Aryeh Neier Fellowship is a two-year fellowship with a separate application procedure; the Neier Fellow works in the New York City offices of Human Rights Watch and the ACLU, spending one year at each organization.) Fellows monitor human rights developments in various countries, conduct on-site investigations, draft reports on human rights conditions, and engage in advocacy aimed at publicizing and curtailing human rights violations. Past fellows have conducted fact-finding missions to, among other places, Albania, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India (including Kashmir and Punjab), Iran, Israel, Kenya, Malaysia, Moldova, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Uganda, the U.S.-Mexican border, and Venezuela. Qualifications Applicants must have exceptional analytic skills, an ability to write and speak clearly, and a commitment to work in the human rights field in the future on a paid or volunteer basis. Proficiency in one language in addition to English is strongly recommended. Familiarity with countries or regions where serious human rights violations occur is also valued. Fellows must be law, journalism, international relations, or area studies graduates with degrees received after January 2004 and before August 2007, or must provide evidence of significant, comparable, relevant work experience. Fellowships begin in September 2007. Salary and Benefits The salary for the 2006-2007 fellows is $43,000, plus excellent employer-paid benefits. The salary for 2007-2008 fellows is currently under review. How to Apply For further information about the Human Rights Watch Fellowship, please visit: http://www.hrw.org/about/info/fellows.html [Moderator's note: ***Please do not reply to this e-mail as it will be sent back to the listserv and you will not receive an answer. Thank you! ***] ======== Global Human Rights Education listserv ======= Send mail intended for the list to < >. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education/ **You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item, but please retain the original and listserv source.
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