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

Eric Epp – Good Gosh It’s Better Than Frosh: It’s Back to Batoche!

by Eric Epp Visting Batoche in June was a solitary, reflective experience—no other cars in the parking lot and nobody closer than whoever...
September 8, 2022

Catherine Ndiaye – Final Thoughts

by Catherine Ndiaye When I first applied to the International Human Rights Internship Program, I was set on working at an NGO abroad....
September 7, 2022

Genny Plumptre – Putting universal human rights standards into practice

by Genny Plumptre This summer, I worked as a legal intern at the National Human Rights Council of the Kingdom of Morocco (CNDH),...
September 7, 2022

Charlotte Ridsdale – An End-of-Summer Reflection

By Charlotte Ridsdale: Blog Post #2 As the summer comes to a close, I would like to reflect on my time as an...
September 2, 2022

Vidish Parikh – Reflections at the end of my internship

by Vidish Parikh – BLOG 2 – 2022/08/29 The end of my internship this August brings about mixed feelings. I noted a couple...
August 31, 2022

Vidish Parikh – Reflections halfway through my internship — law and policy

by Vidish Parikh – BLOG 1 – 2022/07/20 As I reflect now, halfway through my internship I realize more than ever that policy...
August 31, 2022

Bella Harvey – Reflecting on Human Rights Work

by Bella Harvey Reflecting on my experience this summer, I think that human rights work can take many forms, from raising awareness to...
August 30, 2022

Bella Harvey – A Forum for Human Rights

by Bella Harvey This summer, I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with the Forum for Human Rights (“Forum”), which...
August 30, 2022