where
have our interns been?
Lifebeat and the National Coalition for Haitian Rights (New York)
New York Regional Association of Grantmakers
National Coalition for the Homeless (Washington DC)
Children's Defense Fund Freedom School (San Francisco)
Democracy Now (New York) Human Sexuality Collection (Ithaca)
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona
Program for Torture Victims (Los Angeles) WEACTx (New York and Kigali)
Namibian Water Corporation Bhopal Group for Information and Action
Hudson River Community Health Kicking AIDS Out Botswana
Sambhavna Trust Clinic (Bhopal, India) Urban Ecology Field Station (Boston)
War News Radio (Swarthmore, PA) Memoria y Justicia (Santiago, Chile)
Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (Johannesburg)
Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees (Utica, NY)
Construyendo Puentes (Mexico) International Crisis Group (New York)
Parque Ecológico Nueva Juventud (Peten, Guatemala)
Elena NGO (Cameroon) UPROSE Youth Justice (Brooklyn NY)
Argentine Anthropological Forensi Team (Brooklyn, NY)
Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (Jerusalem)
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant (Berkeley) After
Prison Initiative (OSI)
Bulgarian Mission to the United Nations Cambodia
Daily
CBS
News (60 Minutes) Center
for Law and Justice (Albany)
Institute for War and Peace Reporting Citizens
Watch (St. Petersburg)
Committee
for Rehabilitative Aid to Afghanistan (Peshawar)
Cultural
Survival (Cambridge, MA)
EastWest
Institute
Environmental
Advocates of New York Human
Rights Watch
International
Center for Transitional Justice
the
UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
(the Hague) International
Solidarity Movement (West Bank) Justicia
Para Nuestras Hijas Memorial
(Kiev)
New York Times Moscow Bureau
Project IMPACT Prometheus
Radio Project Rape
Crisis Cape Town
Talk Radio News Service University
of Cape Town WITNESS
Zena
Zenama (Women to Women, in Sarajevo)
how
to apply for internship funding
In April 2001, The Human Rights Project initiated a student
summer internship program. This program is designed to give
students the opportunity to experience first-hand the professional
human rights environment, an integral part of human rights
education and scholarship. At the moment, our program is open
to Bard students exclusively.
Students interested
in applying for an internship should begin by choosing a particular
field of human rights and researching the relevant organizations
offering summer internships. It is the responsiblity of the
applicant to secure an internship on her/his own. If necessary,
the Human Rights Project will assist a student in securing
an internship, however the primary goal of this program is
to allow students the independence to choose an internship
that best coincides with their interests.
Awards range based on the length, cost, merit and number of applications, and can be anywhere from $200 to $2000 dollars, with an average award of about $1000. Generally,
summer internships range in length from ten to twelve weeks.
NOTE: The Human Rights Project favors first-time grant applicants, and will usually not award funding to a student who has previously been awarded an HRP summer internship grant.
application
requirements
The internship application
includes the following materials, submitted to the HRP office
in a folder:
- a brief statement of purpose (between 1-3 pages)
- a completed internship application
form
- a budget proposal (living and transportation expenses
if applicable)
- a transcript or list of courses taken to date
The application
submission deadline is April 18, 2008.
At the end of the
summer, students are required to submit a written report (approximately
3 pages in length) on their experiences. See the archive of
reports below:
internship
report archive
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