The Faculty of Humanities, Institute for History, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
3 PhD Positions
Deadline for application: 11 November 2015

The Faculty of Humanities, Institute for History of Leiden University announces vacancies for 3 PhD Positions on Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective.

Girls Not Brides, London
Policy Officer
Deadline for application: 12 November 2015

Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 500 civil society organisations committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfil their potential. The organization works to empower those seeking to end child marriage; to raise awareness of the harmful impact of the practice and the solutions to end it; and to call for urgent action by relevant stakeholders.

Girls Not Brides is seeking a Policy Officer to support the secretariat’s policy analysis and advocacy at the global, regional and national levels.

World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
Human Rights Officer, Brussels
Deadline for application: 31 October 2015

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the largest international coalition of non-governmental organisations fighting against torture, summary executions, forced disappearance and all other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, is seeking to recruit a full time human Rights Officer for the Human Rights Defenders/Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders based in its Brussels Office (OMCT Europe). Working languages are English, French and Spanish. The position should be filled from 16 November 2015.

REDRESS
Casework Legal Intern
Deadline for application: 31 October 2015

REDRESS is seeking applications from excellent law graduates and LLM students with a strong background in international human rights law to take up the role of casework legal intern. REDRESS works to ensure that international standards relating to the prohibition of torture and reparation for survivors of torture and related international crimes are applied at the national level. Part of this work focuses on bringing strategic cases before domestic, regional and international tribunals, informing and influencing new laws and practices at the domestic level, advocating and building the capacity of national institutions to ensure compliance with existing standards. 

REDRESS
Legal Intern – International and National Standards Programs
Deadline for application: 31 October 2015

REDRESS is seeking applications from excellent law graduates and LLM students with a strong background in international human rights law to work in its International and National Standards Programs. REDRESS works to ensure that international standards relating to the prohibition of torture and reparation for survivors of torture and related international crimes are applied at the national level. Part of this work focuses on bringing strategic cases before domestic, regional and international tribunals, informing and influencing new laws and practices at the domestic level, advocating and building the capacity of national institutions to ensure compliance with existing standards. 

European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe), Brussels
Paid internship
Deadline for application: 8 November 2015 

ILGA-Europe is a driving force for political, legal and social change at European level. Its vision is of a world where dignity, freedoms and full enjoyment of human rights are protected and ensured to everyone regardless of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and intersex status.
ILGA-Europe is seeking an intern from December 2015 to April 2016 to work with the staff team in Brussels. This is a paid internship. 

Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amsterdam
Development/Outreach Intern: November/December 2015 - May/June 2016

The Amsterdam office of Human Rights Watch, which opened in 2010, is currently seeking an intern with an interest in human rights, development (fundraising) and event planning. The intern will learn how to organize outreach and cultivation events, prepare visits for international HRW researchers and advocates, correspond with donors and partner organizations, and research human rights issues in the Netherlands.

European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC)
Oak Foundation Human Rights Internship Programme
Deadline for application: 4 November 2015

The European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) is inviting applications from graduates and post-graduates for a six-month human rights programme internship with the Oak Foundation.
 

Council of Europe
Traineeships
Deadline for application: 28 November 2015

Twice per year the Council of Europe welcomes young graduates into its organisation as trainees. The traineeships last from eight weeks to five months, and are not remunerated. Enrolment for the first traineeship session in 2016 is now open.

European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC), Venice Lido (Italy)
Training for International Electoral Observers
I module:  23-25 November 2015
II module: 26-28 November 2015
Deadline for registration: 30 October 2015

International election observation plays an important role in international relations since almost thirty years. The Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation adopted by the UN in 2005 is one of the first attempts of the international Community to set up standard rules recognized at international level. The European Union is strongly committed to contribute to all democratic processes around the world through various activities which include the electoral observation. The adoption of EU guidelines on preconditions for EU observation missions and a code of conduct for EU electoral observers represented an important step towards enhanced co-ordination and serve as a basis for all electoral observers.

EIUC has developed two three-day modules aiming at providing training to civilian staff in election observation missions at the first steps of their career (i.e. short term observers). Selected applicants will be allowed to become aware of the role, the tasks and the status of international observers, and will be given a theoretical and practical training on election observation and election observation missions functioning.

Coordinator of the EU Temporary Relocation Platform
Deadline for application: 19 October 2015 

A consortium of 12 international NGOs have won the contract to establish and implement an EU Human Rights Defenders Mechanism. The members of the Consortium are: Front Line Defenders, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Network (ESCR-Net), International Gay and Lesbian Association (ILGA), Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights (UAF), Protection International, Peace Brigades International (PBI), Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders (EMHRF), Forum Asia and East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP). Front Line Defenders, RSF, OMCT and FIDH will form the Board of the Consortium. In order to implement the EU HRD Mechanism the Board will recruit an independent Secretariat for the project which will be managed by a Head of Secretariat. The EU HRD Mechanism began operations on 1 October 2015 with a contract for 36 months.

Consultores Internacionales en Derechos Humanos (IDEABORN), Barcelona (Spain)
2 positions in electoral programmes' evaluation

Within the FWK BENEF Lot 7, ideaborn is looking for experts for the Evaluation of the Election Observation and Democracy Support Project (EODS) of the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR).

The aim of the EODS is to provide expertise in order to achieve the following:
• to contribute to the consolidation of a consistent methodology for EU Election Observation Missions, in line with relevant international and regional standards for democratic elections; this also includes establishing cooperation with organisations active in electoral assistance and providing support to studies on election observation and other electoral issues;
• to strengthen EU observers capabilities, through development of a common EU approach to the selection and training of observers and staff involved in election observation missions;
• to strengthen the election observation capacity and methodology of regional organisations and networks. Those activities should focus on existing strategies for the implementation of EU EOM recommendations and develop them; they should also include research in the field of elections and election observation, either through analyses of particular countries/regions or comparative studies.

Call for Papers
Workshop 'Moving Beyond the Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What to Learn From International Human Rights Systems?'
29 - 30 January 2016
Deadline for submitting abstract: 3 November 2015

The Inter-AmericanHuman Rights Network (IAHRN) is inviting submissions for papers to be presented at a two-day Workshop entitled "Moving Beyond the Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What to Learn From International Human Rights Systems?" 

Academics, judges, and practitioners from all regions of the world are invited to discuss opportunities for improving policies and outcomes through the implementation of decisions of international adjudicators. The workshop will be held at Ghent University’s Human Rights Centre on 29 and 30 January 2016. If you are interested in participating, please send a half page abstract of the paper you would plan to present to Clara.BurbanoHerrera@UGent.be and p.low@ucl.ac.uk.

Academy of European Law (ERA)
Seminar 'Recent Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights in Criminal Matters'
25 - 26 November 2015, Strasbourg

The seminar will provide legal practitioners with an update on the case law developed by the European Court of Human Rights – mainly in 2014 and 2015 – with relevance for criminal law and criminal procedure. Important new developments presented in this seminar concern, for instance, the right to legal assistance (A.T. vs. Luxembourg 30460/213).

International Human Rights Network, Ireland
Annual Training Programme 'Justice Sector Reform: Applying Human Rights Based Approaches'
27 June 2016 - 1 July 2016
Deadline for application: 17 April 2016

International Human Rights Network is a not-for-profit organisation providing practical, expert, support to organisations applying Human Rights Based Approaches. It provides support for organisations to actively learn from their own, and other's, experience for concrete human rights results.

The annual IHRN training programme aims at enhancing the skills of justice sector personnel, consultants, managers etc., in applying Human Rights Based Approaches to Justice Sector Reform.  The programme is designed for people working in the justice sector (with state or non-state institutions) or undertaking Rule of law/Governance assignments (e.g. UN, EC Framework Contract Lot 7 - Governance and Home Affairs) as well as justice sector personnel wishing to adapt their expertise for international consultancy work. 

IHRN is offering a scholarship to enable a suitably qualified person to participate who would not otherwise be able to do so.

Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Warsaw (Poland)
Interns - Human Rights Department
Deadline for application: 13 October 2015 

The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is the principal institution responsible for the human dimension of the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). ODIHR’s activities are implemented in 57 participating States in accordance with ODIHR’s political mandate. Among ODIHR’s main fields of activities are election observations, as well as a large number of assistance projects in the areas of democratic institution building, the rule of law and human rights.

The ODIHR Human Rights Department is looking to recruit three interns for a 6 months’ period starting in January, May and July 2016 respectively. (Please note the starting date is subject to change. Please kindly mention your availability dates in the cover letter).

Council of Europe (CoE), Strasbourg (France)
Human Rights Advisor
Deadline for application: 7 October 2015 

Based in Strasbourg, France, the Council of Europe (CoE) brings together 47 member states to protect and promote human rights, democracy and the rule of law throughout Europe and beyond. 

The CoE has a vacancy for a Human Rights Advisor. Join the Council of Europe in its mission to ensure human rights for all.