The International Law and Human Rights Fellowship Program is coordinated by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) in cooperation with the Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ) with the support of the Public Interest Law Center (PILC). Individuals who are current full-time 1L, 2L, LLM and JSD students at NYU in New York and Singapore are eligible to apply. The ILHR Fellowship application can be found here.  Applications for the ILHR Fellowship are due by noon, Wednesday, November 14.

The Fellowship has two major components: a 10-12 week internship in summer 2013 at one of many international organizations and a post-internship academic research paper. ILHR program internship organizations include international tribunals, UN organizations and international and national NGOs as follows:

Article 19 (Law Programme), London

Association for Civil Rights, Buenos Aires Association for Civil Rights in Israel (Legal Department), Jerusalem Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust, Dhaka Defence for Children International-Sierra Leone, Freetown and/or Bo Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, Cairo Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (Office of the Co-Prosecutors), Phnom Penh Human Rights Law Network, New Delhi Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, Lima Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Washington Interights, International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, London International Center for Transitional Justice, Bogotá

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague

International Women’s Rights Action Watch-Asia Pacific, Kuala Lumpur Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, Nairobi Legal Resources Centre (Constitutional Litigation Unit), Johannesburg People’s Watch, Tamil Nadu Southern Africa Litigation Centre, Johannesburg UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Amman UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Beirut UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Dakar UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking, Bangkok UN International Law Commission, Geneva UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Phnom Penh UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon, The Hague Zhicheng Public Interest Law Firm, Beijing

If you have questions, please contact Tish Armstrong, the ILHR Fellowship Coordinator.