Amnesty International European Institutions Office (EIO), Brussels
8 traineeships
Deadline for application: 6 June 2013
The Amnesty International European Institutions Office (EIO) is offering eight traineeships for ten months, starting from mid-September 2013:
• Asylum and Migration Traineeship
• Business and Human Rights and Roma Inclusion Traineeship
• Fight Discrimination Campaign Traineeship
• Foreign Policy Traineeship (x 2)
• Justice and Home Affairs Traineeship
• Media and Communications Traineeship
• Policy Coordination Traineeship
Trainees will work alongside an Executive Officer and will gain substantial experience of a particular aspect of Amnesty International’s European advocacy and campaigning work.
All information can be found on the Amnesty International EIO-website.
Summer School 2013 on the Rights of the Child
24 - 28 June 2013, Human Rights Law Centre of the University of Nothingham (UK)
The objective of this exciting programme is to consider issues concerning the rights of the child that are a matter of current legal, political and societal debate, both internationally and comparatively. These include violence against children, child participation, child poverty, andchild rights monitoring and advocacy.
The Summer School will devote sessions to international and regional child rights law, including the work of the international courts and treaty monitoring bodies mandated to consider violations of the rights of the child.
The Summer School is a highly interactive event in which all participants will be encouraged to be fully involved. The training methods include Q and A and group exercises. The working language for the Summer School will be English. All participants receive an extensive electronic file of resource materials. The Summer School faculty are all highly experienced international experts on child rights, with backgrounds in advocacy, research and practice.
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels
One PhD scholarship and one Postdoctoral scholarship in Human Rights Law
Deadline for application: 31 May 2013
PhD scholarship
Within the framework of an interdisciplinary research project coordinated by the Centre on Migration, Asylum and Multiculturalism (MAM-ULB), the Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy and the Legal Section of the Institute for European Studies (ULB) offer one PhD scholarship in Human Rights Law.
The interdisciplinary research project (ARC – Action de Recherche Concertée) 'Under the Paradigm of the Merit and the Cultural Conformity. The New Integration and Migration Policies in Europe' is coordinated by Andrea Rea and Dirk Jacobs (Social Sciences, GERME), Emmanuelle Bribosia (Law, Institute for European Studies) and Isabelle Rorive (Law, Perelman Centre), Assaad Azzi and Laurent Licata (Unity of Social Psychology), Benoît Pilet (Political Science, CEVIPOL), Gilles Van Hamme (Geography, IGEAT).
The topic of the PhD relates to the paradoxical use of the equality principle in antidiscriminatory and integration policies. Detailed information about this project can be found here.
Duration of the contract: 4 years (1 October 2013 – 30 September 2017), one year contract, renewable three times.
Place: Brussels, Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy and Institute for European Studies.
Salary: PhD grant of ca. €1,700/month.
Requirements
• Master in Law (120 ECTS), granting admission to a PhD in Law.
• Excellent skills in French and very good skills in English (written and oral).
• A diploma in another field than law (philosophy, sociology, political science) will be considered as an asset.
• Experience in human rights law (e.g. research activity or internship) will be considered as an asset.
Tasks
• Completion of a PhD.
• Participation in the research activities of the centres (e.g. participation in seminars, international conferences, presentation of papers).
• Contribution to administrative tasks.
How to apply
Interested applicants are invited to send the following documents to Mrs Sylvie Riche at sriche@ulb.ac.be (cc: irorive@ulb.ac.be, ebribo@ulb.ac.be):
• A letter of application
• Your CV
• A writing sample in French and/or English (published or unpublished material)
by 31 May 2013, 23:59 CET.
Procedure
Selected candidates will be interviewed in Brussels on Monday 10 June 2013. If necessary, a second round of interviews will take place on Thursday 13 June 2013. For additional information, please contact prof. E. Bribosia at ebribo@ulb.ac.be and prof. I. Rorive at irorive@ulb.ac.be.
Postdoctoral scholarship
Within the framework of the Inter-University Attraction Pole project 'The Global Challenge of Human Rights Integration: Toward a Users’ Perspective', the Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy and the Legal Section of the Institute for European Studies (ULB) offer one Postdoctoral scholarship in Human Rights Law.
This research project departs from the observation that both rights holders and duty bearers in human rights law are confronted with a multitude of provisions differing in scope, focus, legal force and level of governance. This non-hierarchical accumulation of provisions has resulted in a complex and uncoordinated legal architecture that might hamper effective human rights protection. In this context, the core research objective of the proposed network is the study of human rights as an integrated body of law from a user perspective.
This project is coordinated by several professors in five different Belgian and one Dutch university: Eva Brems (UGent), Dirk Voorhoof (UGent), Yves Haeck (UGent), Koen De Feyter (UA), Paul De Hert (VUB), Stefaan Smis (VUB), Sébastien Van Drooghenbroeck (FUSL), Emmanuelle Bribosia (ULB) & Isabelle Rorive (ULB), Barbara Oomen (Utrecht University).
For more information on the HRI project which started in October 2012, visit the project website of (in particular work packages 1, 2, 3 and 6).
Duration of the contract: 2 years, starting on 1 October 2013 (1 year, renewable one time).
Place: Brussels, Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy and Institute for European Studies.
Salary: Post doc. grant of ca. €2,200/month.
Requirements
• PhD in law.
• Excellent language skills in English and in French (written and oral).
• A diploma in philosophy, sociology or political sciences will be considered as an asset.
• Experience in human rights law will be considered as an asset.
In addition, the position is subject to the following conditions:
• Between 1 October 2010 and 30 September 2013, the time of residence in Belgium should not exceed 24 months.
• Between 1 October 2010 and 30 September 2013, no principal activity should have been carried out in Belgium for more than 24 months.
• Prior postdoctoral grants in Belgian universities should not exceed 36 months
Tasks
• Research activities within the scope of the HRI project and contribution to collective research.
• Organisation of an international conference (May 2014) and PhD seminars.
• Contribution to administrative tasks and coordination with other HRI partners.
How to apply
Interested applicants are invited to send the following documents to Mrs Sylvie Riches at riche@ulb.ac.be (cc: irorive@ulb.ac.be, ebribo@ulb.ac.be):
• A letter of application
• Your CV
• A writing sample in English and/or French (published material)
by 31 May 2013, 23:59 CET.
Procedure
Selected candidates will be interviewed in Brussels on Monday 10 June 2013. If necessary, a second round of interviews will take place on Thursday 13 June 2013. For additional information, please contact prof. E. Bribosia at ebribo@ulb.ac.be and prof. I. Rorive at irorive@ulb.ac.be.
Privacy International (PI), London
Policy Officer
Deadline for application: 31 May 2013
Privacy International (PI) was founded in 1990 and has active associates and networks in 47 countries. Its mission is to defend the right to privacy across the world, and to fight unlawful surveillance and other intrusions into private life by governments and corporations.
The vision of Privacy International is a world in which privacy is protected by governments, respected by corporations and cherished by individuals. PI believes that technological developments should strengthen, rather than undermine, the right to a private life, and that everyone’s personal information and communications must be carefully safeguarded, regardless of nationality, religion, personal or economic status.
Privacy International is currently recruiting a Policy Officer.
The role of the Policy Officer is to work with the Legal Officer and Head of Research as part of the Big Brother Incorporated project to raise the profile and understanding of issues related to the export of surveillance technology in the UK and internationally. The Policy Officer will also coordinate an international campaign for introducing export controls on surveillance technology.
The Big Brother Incorporated project investigates the international trade in surveillance technology, with a particular focus on the flow of products from Western countries to repressive regimes intent on using them as tools of political control. The project's objectives are:
• To raise worldwide awareness of the dangers of surveillance technologies and the ethical failures of the surveillance industry.
• To ensure that export controls are put in place in Europe and the US to restrict the sale of surveillance technologies to repressive regimes.
• To seek redress for those who have suffered harm as a result of Western-manufactured surveillance technologies.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Brussels Office
Internship International Justice Program
Deadline for application: 1 June 2013
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, Human Rights Watch gives voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes. Through rigorous, objective investigations and strategic, targeted advocacy Human Rights Watch builds intense pressure for action and raise the cost of human rights abuse. For more than 30 years, Human Rights Watch has worked tenaciously to lay the legal and moral groundwork for deep-rooted change and has fought to bring greater justice and security to people around the world.
The International Justice (IJ) Program of Human Rights Watch (HRW) advises and operationalizes HRW’s activities on a range of issues relating to accountability in international criminal fora, devises strategies to obtain justice, and produces written materials to implement those strategies.
The Brussels Office of Human Rights Watch has a opening for International Justice Program intern.
Human Rights Centre, Ghent University, Belgium
Doctoral Researcher
Job description
The Human Rights Centre of Ghent University is currently accepting applications for a doctoral researcher. This is a 4-year position starting on 1 October 2013. The researcher will be working under the supervision of prof. Eva Brems. She/he will be conducting research on 'regulating divergence within the multilayered human rights sytem: identifying the tools'. This research is situated within an Interuniversity Attraction Pole (IAP) project on 'The Global Challenge of Human Rights Integration: Toward a Users' Perspective'. More information on the project can be obtained from prof. Brems (eva.brems@ugent.be).
