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Justice Initiative Fellows Program at the Central European University (2005 - 2007 session)
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Central European University
Department of Legal Studies
CEU Budapest
Justice Initiative Fellows Program at the Central
European University
(2005
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2007 session)
Deadline: 6 January 2005
The Open Society Justice Initiative joins with the
Central
European University (CEU) to announce the Justice
Initiative Fellows
Program
for
2005-2007. The aim of the program is to support and
further develop a
network of
lawyers and activists working on human rights-related
issues
internationally.
The Human Rights Fellows Program is a two-year program
of study and
practical
work experience. Up to ten applicants will be selected
in 2005 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, the African Great Lakes region, Southeast
Asia, the Middle
East,
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, hold a university degree and be highly
proficient in English.
Criteria
for selection will include the applicant?s experience,
his/her
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,
Fellows
will be required to sign an agreement with the Justice
Initiative
committing
themselves to the program for two years. The first
year is spent at the
Central
European University, the second in the applicant?s
home country,
working
with
the nominating NGO.
Human Rights Fellows will reside a total of one year
in Hungary, at CEU
Legal
Studies Department. They will undertake a degree
program (M.A. or LL.M.
in
Human
Rights, dependent on their undergraduate degree), in
which they will be
required
to fulfill the requirements of the Human Rights
Program at the Central
European
University. During their stay at CEU the Fellows will
also participate
in a
three-month internship placement with leading NGOs in
Europe from
January
until
March.
The Justice Initiative Fellowship will be administered
by CEU Legal
Studies
Department, in partnership with the Justice
Initiative, during the
first
year of
the program. Financial conditions will be identical to
CEU policies for
full
scholarship students. Human Rights Fellows will return
to their
nominating
NGOs
after the first year, where they will spend at least
one year working
in
human
rights advocacy on a non-profit basis: providing legal
services,
undertaking
human rights litigation, providing training and
education, etc. The
Justice
Initiative will pay a local salary during this second
year equal to an
amount
determined to be similar to equivalent work by the
nominating NGO. This
amount
will be provided to the nominating NGOs in the form of
a grant.
Application Procedure
Applicants must submit their applications to the CEU
Admissions Office
(1051
Budapest, Nador street 9, Hungary). They must meet the
general CEU
Admissions
Requirements, which can be viewed online
(http://www.ceu.hu/admissions.html), as
well as the CEU Legal Studies Department Requirements
(
http://www.ceu.hu/legal/admissions.html). In addition,
applicants must
include
with their application:
1. A nominating letter from an NGO describing
the reasons for
nominating
the applicant, the expectations the NGO has of the
project, and
contractually
committing (to the Justice Initiative) to hire the
applicant for at
least
one
year after s/he returns from the twelve-month
training program in
Hungary.
The nomination letter should also indicate a
monthly salary gross
rate in
USD
(including all taxes and fees) that will be offered
to the applicant
by
the
NGO in the event that s/he is selected for the
program (provided to
the
NGO
by the Justice Initiative in the form of a grant).
2. A copy of the applicant?s bar association
membership (if
applicable),
or the date scheduled for examination.
3. Proof of English proficiency (if
available). If no language
test
has
been taken, a test will be carried out during the
application
procedure
(exact dates to be determined). For applicants from
the former
Soviet
Union
and Central and Eastern Europe, language tests will
be carried out
by
local
Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute
coordinators. In other
regions,
applicants will be contacted individually.
4. A statement of purpose for applying to the
Justice
Initiative
Fellows
program.
5. A proposal of project activities that the
candidate plans to
work
on
with the nominating NGO during the second year of
the fellowship.
The DEADLINE for receiving applications at CEU is
January 6, 2005.
If you have questions regarding the first year of the
program, please
contact:
Katalin Horvath, Special Programs Coordinator, Legal
Studies
Department,
Central
European University, Nádor u. 9, Budapest 1051, tel:
+361 327-3205,
e-mail:
horvathk (at) ceu.hu, web: http://www.ceu.hu/legal.
For more information about the overall program, please
contact:
Rita Bakradze, Fellows Program Coordinator at the
Justice Initiative,
Nador
u.
11, Budapest 1051, tel: +361 327-3102; fax: +361 327
3103; e-mail:
rbakradze (at) osi.hu, web:
http://www.justiceinitiative.org
For more information about this program please visit
http://www.justiceinitiative.org and
http://www.ceu.hu/legal/osji_prog.html
This announcement is online at:
http://www.justiceinitiative.org/db/resource2?res_id=102254
The Open Society Justice Initiative, an operational
program of the Open
Society
Institute (OSI), pursues law reform activities
grounded in the
protection of
human rights, and contributes to the development of
legal capacity for
open
societies. The Justice Initiative combines litigation,
legal advocacy,
technical
assistance, and the dissemination of knowledge to
secure advances in
five
priority areas: national criminal justice,
international justice,
freedom of
information and expression, equality and citizenship,
and
anticorruption.
Its
offices are in Abuja, Budapest, and New York.
www.justiceinitiative.org
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