Human Rights Fellowship Program
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Background
The Justice Initiative supports a variety of fellowship programs to encourage the professional development of young lawyers and enhance the capacity of leading human rights NGOs. Beginning in 1996, COLPI, the Justice Initiative’s predecessor, established a fellowship program at the American University Washington College of Law. Young lawyers from central and eastern Europe were nominated by regional human rights NGOs for a two-year fellowship program. The first year was spent in the U.S. attending human rights courses and participating in internships with NGOs. In the second, fellows returned to their home country, where the fellowship covered the costs of a year’s full-time work with their nominating NGO. Although no longer operating in the American University, the Justice Initiative now conducts fellowship programs involving a similar combination of study, work experience and NGO capacitation with Columbia University, the Central European University and the University of Sao Paulo.
Objectives
The Justice Initiative Human Rights Fellowship Program has two main objectives:
- To invest in the professional development of promising young human rights lawyers and activists by giving them opportunities for academic and practical training
- To assist leading human rights NGOs in countries of Justice Initiative presence to build organizational capacity through training of their staff, including legal professionals and human rights activists
Activities
The Fellowship Program has the following components:
Justice Initiative Fellows Program at CEU
Justice Initiative Interns
Human Rights/ Public Interest Law Fellows Retreat
Fellows Program for Angola and Mozambique
Public Interest Law Fellows Program
Practicing Human Rights Fellows Program
Justice Initiative Resident Fellows
A Database of fellows contains contact and professional information for fellows, as well as a biographical note and details of their fellowships.
The OSI-Supported Human Rights and Public Interest Law Fellows Retreat, Istanbul, Turkey, July 10-12, 2003
Organized by the Open Society Justice Initiative in partnership with Columbia University’s Public Interest Law Initiative, the Central European University’s Legal Studies Department and the OSI Network Scholarship Program.
In July 2003, the OSI-Supported Human Rights and Public Interest Law Fellows Retreat in Istanbul brought together 64 leading human rights scholars and activists from 25 countries on four continents. In his opening statement, Zaza Namoradze, Director of the Budapest Office of the Open Society Justice Initiative, observed that the participants collectively epitomized “the future of global human rights activism all in one room”.
Read the full report in MS Word or pdf
Partners
- Central European University, Legal Studies Department
- Columbia University, School of Law
- Open Society Foundation-South Africa
- Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
- OSI Network Scholarship Program
- Public Interest Law Initiative
- University of Essex
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Human Rights Fellows Gather for Training in Cairo
Description: Cairo, January 25, 2006— Open Society Justice Initiative and the American University in Cairo, along with six partner organizations, announce the Open Society Institute (OSI)-Supported Human Rights Fellows Retreat. The retreat is being held in Cairo on January 26-28, 2006 and will ... Read on
Date: 25 January 2006
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Human Rights Fellows Program for Angola and Mozambique (2006-2008 Session) (English/Portugese)
Description: Human Rights Fellows Program for Angola and Mozambique (2006-2008 Session) The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and the Open Society Justice Initiative (the Justice Initiative) are pleased to invite applications for the Human Rights Fellows Program for ... Read on
Date: 4 October 2005
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Human Rights Fellows Program for East Timor (2006-2008 Session)(English/Portugese)
Description: Human Rights Fellows Program for East Timor (2006-2008 Session) The Fellows Program is 20 months in duration and involves both academic study and practical experience in human rights/public interest advocacy. In 2006, we offer one slot for human rights ... Read on
Date: 4 October 2005
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Justice Initiative Fellows Newsletter, October 2004
Description: JUSTICE INITIATIVE FELLOWS NEWSLETTER 2004 October 14, 2004 Contents New Fellows, 2004-2005 Justice Initiative Fellows at the Central European University, Budapest PILI/Justice Initiative Public Interest Law ... Read on
Date: 14 October 2004
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Human Rights/ Public Interest Law Fellows Retreat (Istanbul)
Description: OSI-Supported Human Rights and Public Interest Law Fellows Retreat Organized by the Open Society Justice Initiative in partnership with Columbia University's Public Interest Law Initiative, the Central European University's Legal Studies Department and the OSI ... Read on
Date: 12 July 2003
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