Chanelle Lajoie – Bulgarian Traditions and LGBTI+ Existence

Sofia is Bulgaria’s capital city, and where I am currently interning with the Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law(BCNL). Having established itself in 2001, BCNL...
July 13, 2023

Andrea Carboni Jiménez – The End to a Remote Experience

Andrea Carboni Jiménez - Blog 2: 30/09/22 When I applied to the McGill Human Rights Internship, I hoped to travel somewhere far, experience...
October 1, 2022

Andrea Carboni Jiménez – The Importance of Interdisciplinary Approaches

Andrea Carboni Jiménez - Blog 1: 27/06/22 My internship is with the Legal Clinic of Disability and Human Rights of the Pontifical Catholic...
October 1, 2022

Nathan Leung – Truth, Memory, and Reconciliation

by Nathan Leung “Hay futuro si hay verdad” - there is a future if there is truth. This was Colombia’s Comision de la...
September 30, 2022

Somaya Amiri – Reflection on Refugee Resettlement Process

by Somaya Amiri Working with the Refugee Law Project (RLP) in Uganda exposed me to various challenges migrant communities face in the country...
September 29, 2022

Sophie Bisping – Legislate First, Define Later

by Sophie Bisping The views expressed in this blog are my own. The Global Observatory on Academic Freedom, where I worked for a...
September 25, 2022

Jack Ball – Living and Working at a Frontier

by Jack Ball The views expressed in this post are my own. One day, in July, I went to the grocery store and...
September 15, 2022

Poonam Sandhu – International Criminal Justice, what’s it good for?

By Poonam Sandhu The views expressed in this blog are my own. This year marked the 20th anniversary of the entry into force...
September 15, 2022

Aliya Behar – Coming Full Circle in Sofia

by Aliya Behar The views expressed in this piece are my own. An afternoon in late July, I sat in the company of...
September 11, 2022

Renée Lehman – Global Views from Home: Lessons from a Remote Internship

By Renée Lehman From submitting an amicus curiae brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), to researching potential courses of action...
September 10, 2022

Laurence LeBlanc – What can we learn from protesting refugees? : A UNHCR Tunisia example

by Laurence LeBlanc NOTE: The views in this article are my own and by no way representative of the positions held by UNHCR...
September 9, 2022

Genny Plumptre – North Africa’s colonial borders

by Genny Plumptre Nearly three months into my internship at the Conseil national des droits de l’Homme (CNDH), I went on a brief...
September 9, 2022