Deadline for Application: 10/7/2005

Post Title and Level: Fellowship

Duration: 1 year

Compensation: The salary is $43,000, plus excellent employer-paid benefits

Description of functions

This year Human Rights Watch will award three fellowships to recent graduates of law schools or graduate programs (master's degree and above) in journalism, international relations, area studies, or other relevant disciplines. The Alan R. and Barbara D. Finberg Fellowship is open to any candidate who meets these criteria. The Leonard H. Sandler Fellowship is restricted to graduates of Columbia Law School. The Arthur Helton Fellowship is restricted to graduates of New York University School of Law.



In addition to the fellowships offered by Human Rights Watch, graduates of the Yale University School of Law may apply directly to the law school for the Bernstein Fellowship. Human Rights Watch encourages prospective Bernstein fellows to make arrangements to work with Human Rights Watch and to include those arrangements in their applications to Yale for the fellowship. For information on applying for this fellowship, click here.



Fellows work full time for one year at Human Rights Watch, based in New York City or Washington, D.C. Fellows monitor human rights developments in various countries, conduct on-site investigations, draft reports on human rights conditions, and engage in advocacy aimed at publicizing and curtailing human rights violations. Past fellows have conducted fact-finding missions to, among other places, Albania, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India (including Kashmir and Punjab), Iran, Israel, Kenya, Malaysia, Moldova, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Uganda, the U.S.-Mexican border, and Venezuela.

Requirements

Applicants must have exceptional analytic skills, an ability to write and speak clearly, and a commitment to work in the human rights field in the future on a paid or volunteer basis. Proficiency in one language in addition to English is strongly recommended. Familiarity with countries or regions where serious human rights violations occur is also valued. Fellows must be law, journalism, international relations, or area studies graduates with degrees received after January 2003 and before August 2006, or must provide evidence of significant, comparable, relevant work experience. Fellowships begin in September 2006.

Notes

How to Apply:
Please send a complete application packet that includes the following:

cover letter
résumé (curriculum vitae)
two letters of recommendation
unedited, unpublished writing sample
official law or graduate school transcript (applicants in one-year graduate programs should supply an undergraduate transcript with a list of their graduate school courses)

Applicants must be available for interviews in New York in late November to mid-December 2005.

Applications must be submitted by mail, under a single cover. However, under truly extenuating circumstances and only with prior written approval from us, you may send in an application or part of an application by email or fax, by the deadline of October 7, 2005. Lateness of an application does not constitute extenuating circumstances. Emailed or faxed applications will not be accepted without prior written approval from Human Rights Watch.

Send resume or CV to:

Attn: Fellowship Committee
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY
United States
Phone: (212) 290-4700, ext.
fellowship@hrw.org