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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