[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [balkans] Human Rights Fellows Program 2003 - 2005

[Agron Alibali]

> 
> Human Rights Fellows Program
> (2003 –2005 session)
> 
> 
> The Open Society Justice Initiative ("Justice
> Initiative"), part of the Open Society Institute
> ("OSI"), joins with Central European University
> ("CEU") to announce the Human Rights Fellows
> Program. The aim of the program is to support and
> further develop a worldwide network of lawyers and
> activists working on human rights-related issues.
> 
> The Human Rights Fellows Program is a two year
> program of study and practical work experience. Ten
> applicants will be selected in 2003 to participate
> in the program. Applicants from the following
> regions and countries are eligible: Central and
> Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Mongolia,
> West and Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, Middle
> East, Colombia, Haiti, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru.
> 
> Applicants must be nominated by a non-governmental
> organization concerned with human rights. The
> applicant must demonstrate a strong commitment to
> human rights, a university degree and a high degree
> of proficiency in English. Criteria for selection
> include the applicant’s educational and work
> experience, the applicant’s potential to contribute
> to the protection and promotion of human rights, and
> the suitability of the applicant’s proposed role in
> the nominating NGO. Upon selection, each Fellow will
> be required to sign an agreement with the Justice
> Initiative committing to two years in the program:
> the first year to be spent at the Central European
> University, the second in the Fellow’s home country
> working with the nominating NGO. 
> 
> Fellows will spend the first year at the CEU Legal
> Studies Department in Budapest, Hungary, with
> financial terms identical to those afforded full
> scholarship students. Fellows will undertake a
> degree program (M.A. or LL.M. in Human Rights,
> dependent on their undergraduate degree), and must
> fulfill all degree program requirements. The
> academic year commences on August 4, 2003. For
> degree requirements, please see
> http://www.ceu.hu/legal/legalpro.html. During their
> stay at CEU Fellows will participate in a
> three-month internship placement with a leading
> human rights NGO in Europe. 
> 
> After completion of the first year of the program,
> Fellows will return to their nominating NGOs to
> devote one year working on human rights advocacy on
> a non-profit basis: providing legal services,
> undertaking human rights litigation, and/or
> providing training and education. During this second
> year of the program, Fellows receive a local salary
> (paid for by the Fellowship) commensurate with
> salaries provided for equivalent work by the
> nominating NGO.
> 
> Application Procedure 
> 
> 
> Applications must be submitted to the CEU Admissions
> Office. Applicants must satisfy the general CEU
> Admissions requirements
> (http://www.ceu.hu/prospective_students.html), as
> well as the CEU Legal Studies Department Admissions
> requirements
> (http://www.ceu.hu/legal/legent.2001.htm). In
> addition, applicants must include a nominating
> letter from an NGO describing the need for a lawyer,
> activist or scholar working in the organization and
> contractually committing to hire the applicant for
> at least one year after he/she returns from the
> twelve-month program at CEU. The nomination letter
> should also indicate a gross (including taxes and
> other fees) monthly salary rate that will be offered
> to the applicant by the NGO in the event that he or
> she is selected for the program. 
> 
> If your application is successful, you will be
> asked, as a precondition of accepting the grant, to
> consent to subsequent internal or public disclosure,
> by OSI, CEU, and their affiliated organizations in
> the Soros Foundations Network, of your name and
> other identifying information about you, such as
> your nationality and professional affiliation(s),
> and information about the fellowship, including
> fellowship purpose and grant amount.
> 
> 
> The DEADLINE for receiving applications at CEU is
> January 6, 2003. If you have questions regarding the
> first year of the program, please contact Maria
> Balla, Department Coordinator, Legal Studies
> Department, Central European University, Nádor u. 9,
> Budapest 1051, tell: 361 327-3204, e-mail:
> ballam at ceu.hu, web: http://www.ceu.hu. For more
> information about the second year of the program,
> please contact Eszter Filippinyi, Program
> Coordinator, Justice Initiative, Nador u. 11,
> Budapest 1051, tell: 361 327-3102; fax: 361 327
> 3103; e-mail: filippinyi at osi.hu.
> 
> 
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