
Depending 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.