Posted by The South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC) is a network of individuals across the region. It seeks to investigate, document, and disseminate information about human rights treaties and conventions, human rights education, refugees, media freedom, prison reforms, political imprisonment, torture, summary executions, disappearances, and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. SAHRDC collects information on human rights, specifically on violations of civil and political rights
SAHRDC accepts interns from all over the world, who have a serious human rights commitment. Intending interns should be prepared and capable of hard and diligent research work.
SAHRDC welcomes students, mid-term career professionals and lawyers looking for a sabbatical with good analytical and research aptitude.
The Internship
At any given point SAHRDC has a number of ongoing projects. Most of these projects entail copious research work. Some of them require travel within Asia, Interns are able to assume a significant amount of responsibility. In the past, students from Yale Law School Columbia University, Harvard University, Fordham, University of Virginia, University of Minnesota, New York Law School and Chicago Law School from the United States have interned with SAHRDC.
SAHRDC has also had interns from the London School of Economics, Essex University and the University of London from the United Kingdom Indian interns have being from the National Law School University of India. Bangalore, The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, The Tata Institute for Social Sciences Mumbai, University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Application Procedure
Send your detailed CV and a writing sample to SAHRDC, to ravinairsahrdc@gmail.com
The writing sample could be a term paper of between 10 to 15 pages.
Note: For international interns, SAHRDC now provides virtual internships.
Contact Information
22 Northend Complex, Ramakrishna Ashram Marg
New Delhi
110001
India
Email ID: ravinairsahrdc@gmail.com
Contact Numbers: +91-11-23361120/23342717
After Office hours and holidays: Mobile: 91-9810344765
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