Lessons learned: interning in a civil society organization in Tunisia

by Weeam Ben Rejeb 1. Flexibility is key. One of the biggest takeaways from my internship in a civil society organization like Aswat Nissa is...
August 23, 2022

Knowledge is Power: How Access to Legal Information Can Protect Human Rights

By Noémie Richard I first started working as a volunteer for the Kenya-Canada Remote Legal Aid Project in the first week of my...
August 19, 2022

Overwhelmed by numbers

by Sophie Bisping Recently, a feeling of futility has started to creep in as I sit down at my desk. I can’t quite...
August 15, 2022

Leaving Akwesasne: Much More Than Just a Legal Internship

by Brandon Bonspiel My summer at the Akwesasne Justice Department is over. For the last 12 weeks, I participated in the development of...
August 13, 2022

Stage à la CDPDJ – Bribes d’un été mouvementé

Par Yasmine Amar 30 mai 2022. C’est ma première journée. Je suis paralysée devant le majestueux bâtiment qui me surplombe, le 360 rue...
August 8, 2022

Dismantling “Bureaucratic Colonialism”

By Hannah Reardon The views expressed in this post are the author's alone. *This post contains some descriptions of colonial violence, including mentions...
August 8, 2022

The realities of human rights work

by Catherine Ndiaye Going into my internship at Equitas, I was expecting to help big-shot lawyers defend victims of human rights violations, just...
August 2, 2022

“Never, never again!”

by Fatima Beydoun Trigger warning: Mentions of death and state violence. I arrived in Manila during a challenging time for human rights supporters....
August 2, 2022

Subsidiarity and Complementarity: Guiding Principles in International Human Rights Work

by Renée Lehman Upon beginning my internship at Avocats sans frontières Canada (ASFC), it quickly became clear that the principles of subsidiarity and...
August 1, 2022

Seeing Myself in Human Rights Work

by Mariana Furneri   Ahead of our internships, my peers and I attended information and preparation sessions where we discussed what to expect...
July 25, 2022

Tunisia on the precipice

by Weeam Ben Rejeb Five days after the start of my internship at Aswat Nissa, a feminist organization in Tunisia, President Kais Saied...
July 25, 2022

Josh A Singer Johnson – And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?

by Joshua Singer Johnson The title of this post is taken from the Talking Heads’ 1980 song Once in A Lifetime. In that...
July 24, 2022