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Human Rights Externships

Institute LogoDepending upon the availability of funding, the Institute will place a number of Fellows in summer externships with human rights organizations, here and abroad. Fellows have been placed with the U.N. Centre on Human Rights in Geneva, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica, a human rights law firm in Pretoria, South Africa, law firms specializing in gender discrimination in Botswana and Katmandu, Nepal, Interrights in London, Article 19 in London, Rights and Humanity in London, the International Human Rights Law Group in Washington, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in New York, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, Amnesty International USA, the South Africa Project of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, the U.S. Embassy in Djibouti (refugee issues), clerking for the U.S. expert on the U.N. Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities in Geneva, the Chilean Human Rights Commission, the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, the International Human Rights Law Group, Africa Watch, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Navajo Supreme Court and Legal Services Organization for the Navajo Nation, the ACLU, the Egyptian Human Rights Organization, Center for Justice and International Law, John F. Kennedy Foundation, Sierra Club and Colorado Legal Services. Fellows have also been members of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Commission.