Human Rights Watch Fellowships Program:
International Human Rights Fellowship
Course(s) Offered: Human Rights-related
Course Level: Graduate fellowship
Provider: Human Rights Watch
Country to Study in: Any province (USA, UK, other approved locations)
Scholarship Description
Human Rights Watch offers Fellowships Programs inward International Human Rights which are administered every bit either Unrestricted or Restricted Fellowships. Human Rights Watch invites applications for its society program.
1. Unrestricted Fellowships:
2. Restricted Fellowships:
For recent graduates of police describe schools or graduate programs inward journalism, international relations, expanse studies, or other relevant disciplines from universities worldwide.
International Human Rights Fellowship
Course(s) Offered: Human Rights-related
Course Level: Graduate fellowship
Provider: Human Rights Watch
Country to Study in: Any province (USA, UK, other approved locations)
Scholarship Description
Human Rights Watch offers Fellowships Programs inward International Human Rights which are administered every bit either Unrestricted or Restricted Fellowships. Human Rights Watch invites applications for its society program.
1. Unrestricted Fellowships:
- Alan R. as well as Barbara D. Finberg Fellowship - Established inward retention of Alan R. as well as Barbara D. Finberg, early on supporters of Human Rights Watch, this society is opened upward to recent graduates (at the Master's level) inward the fields of law, journalism, international relations, or other relevant studies. Graduates amongst LL.B. degrees or advanced degrees inward other relevant disciplines may too endure considered.
- Arthur Koenig Fellowship - Established inward 2010, the Arthur Koenig Fellowship is designed to assist convey talented people from disadvantaged economical backgrounds into the human rights movement. The Arthur Koenig society is opened upward to recent graduates (at the Master's flat or above) inward the fields of law, journalism, international relations, or other relevant studies. Graduates amongst LL.B. degrees or advanced degrees inward other relevant disciplines may too endure considered.
2. Restricted Fellowships:
- NYU School of Law Fellowship at HRW - This society is opened upward to 2012 J.D. graduates of New York University School of Law only.
- Leonard H. Sandler Fellowship - Established inward retention of Judge Leonard H. Sandler, a 1950 Columbia Law graduate amongst a lifelong commitment to civil rights as well as liberties, this society is opened upward to recent J.D. graduates of Columbia Law School only.
For recent graduates of police describe schools or graduate programs inward journalism, international relations, expanse studies, or other relevant disciplines from universities worldwide.
- Applicants must demonstrate a potent background inward international human rights as well as endure committed to edifice a career inward human rights. Research experience, including sense conducting interviews, ideally inward the context of human rights research, is required. Field sense inward human rights is strongly desirable.
- Applicants must select particular analytic skills as well as fantabulous oral as well as written communications skills inward English. Proficiency inward i linguistic communication inward add-on to English linguistic communication is strongly desired every bit is familiarity amongst countries or regions where serious human rights violations occur.
- Applicants should endure highly motivated as well as well-organized; able to function chop-chop as well as good nether pressure, both independently as well as every bit a fellow member of a team; juggle multiple tasks; as well as come across tight deadlines. The Fellowship twelvemonth volition require creativity, initiative, perseverance, as well as flexibility patch maintaining HRW's high methodological standards.
- Depending on the society for which they wishing to apply, prospective fellows must endure recent graduates of law, journalism, international relations, or other relevant studies, or must provide evidence of significant, comparable, relevant function experience. (Please regard the Frequently Asked Questions department on the official website for the specific requirements of the diverse fellowships.)
Citizens of whatsoever province inward the world
Participating Institutions
Human Rights Watch, USA (New York or Washington, D.C.) OR whatsoever other approved locations
Fields of study
All fields related to Human Rights - law, journalism, international relations, expanse studies or whatsoever other relevant discipline
Fellows monitor human rights developments inward diverse countries, comport on-site investigations, draft reports on human rights conditions, as well as engage inward advocacy as well as media outreach aimed at publicizing as well as curtailing human rights violations.
Sponsorship duration
Fellows function full-time for i twelvemonth amongst Human Rights Watch typically inward New York or Washington, D.C., or inward some instances inward some other location.
Scholarship benefits (and Salary)
The salary for 2011-2012 fellows is US$55,000, summation fantabulous employer-paid benefits. The salary for 2012-2013 is currently nether review as well as may endure increased.
Method of Application
Applicants are responsible for compiling consummate application packets which must include the following: comprehend letter, resume, ii letters of recommendation, at to the lowest degree i unedited unpublished writing sample (no legal briefs, please), as well as an official police describe or graduate schoolhouse transcript (applicants inward one-year graduate programs should render an undergraduate transcript amongst a listing of their graduate schoolhouse courses).
Arthur Koenig Fellowship applicants only: In add-on to the comprehend letter, resume, letters of recommendation, transcript, as well as writing sample, applicants must too submit an essay describing the aspects of their background that select been economically disadvantaged. Applicants may wishing to consider the next when writing this essay: a). The economical circumstances of their family, including during childhood. b). Their history of need-based fiscal assistance used to consummate their educational activity to appointment as well as their sense working to brand a substantial fiscal contribution to their ain education. c). The highest educational activity flat attained past times i or both parents, or whether the candidate is a first generation academy graduate inward his or her family. AND d). Please bound the essay to no to a greater extent than than 1,000 words.
Applications should endure sent past times e-mail, under unmarried comprehend (in i email) as well as preferably every bit i PDF file (or, at a minimum, every bit carve upward PDF files), to fellowship@hrw.org amongst the mention of the society inward the dependent line.
DEADLINES:
Complete applications (including transcripts as well as recommendations) for 2012-2013 fellowships must endure received no afterwards than Oct 6, 2011.
PLEASE NOTE:
Applicants must endure available for interviews inward New York from slow Nov to mid-December 2011.
Human Rights Watch (HRW), the international human rights monitoring as well as advocacy organization, is known for its impartial as well as reliable human rights reporting on over lxx countries worldwide, its innovative as well as high-profile advocacy campaigns, as well as its success inward affecting the policy of the USA as well as other influential governments toward human rights abusers.
Application Deadline: half dozen Oct 2011
Open to International Applicants: Yes
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