Derechos: Human Rights Listings

F/T Position Available:

Advocacy Department
Washington, DC Office

Deadline for applications: April 14, 2008

Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) is seeking highly-qualified applicants for the position of Washington Advocacy Deputy Director.

Description: The Washington Advocacy Deputy Director is responsible for assisting with the development and implementation of advocacy strategies on the full range of countries and issues addressed by Human Rights Watch. The Deputy Director is directly involved in the management and coordination of advocacy activities conducted by HRW in Washington. The responsibilities of the Deputy Director include, but are not limited to:

� Conducting advocacy with officials in the executive branch, including the State Department and National Security Council, and with members of Congress and their staffs;

� Leading HRW’s advocacy in Washington on selected issues, as defined in consultation with the Washington Advocacy Director;

� Partnering with HRW divisions and researchers to identify and create opportunities that support their advocacy efforts involving the US government, and engaging in sustained follow-up on such initiatives;

� Conducting research on US foreign policy issues and drafting position papers, letters, and background memoranda;

� Monitoring U.S. foreign policy relating to human rights within both the executive and legislative branches of government, and informing and advising HRW staff on developments;

� Supporting HRW’s efforts to engage the Washington press corps regarding our work;

� Working with non-governmental organizations and representing HRW in various NGO settings and coalitions in which HRW participates;

� Assisting with the supervision of advocacy interns working in HRW’s Washington office; and

� Other tasks as may be assigned.

The Future of Human Rights
U.S. Policy for a New Era
William F. Schulz, Editor

288 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth Apr 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4111-2 | $45.00s | £29.50 | Add to shopping cart
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series

In the introduction to The Future of Human Rights, William F. Schulz laments that U.S. foreign policy, "so buoyant at the end of the Cold War, has returned to earth with a thud over the past few years. Among its crash victims has been American leadership in the struggle for human rights."

Human Rights in the Arab World
Independent Voices
Anthony Chase and Amr Hamzawy, Editors

336 pages | 6 x 9
Paper Feb 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2032-2 | $24.95s | £16.50 |
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series

"An important contribution to the debate on the relationship between culture and international human rights norms."—International Affairs

Why have human rights been marginalized in the Arab world? How do we gauge the relevance of human rights in the region, given the political, social, and economic context? What are the practical and theoretical obstacles to the implementation of these rights?

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is looking to fill the following position:

Fundraising Director

Conditions:
Duration: Permanent contract, two-month trial period
Hours: Full time (35 hour/week regime applies)
Location: FIDH International Secretariat, Paris
Salary: Depending on past experience
Start date: May 2008
Closing date for applications: 15 April 2008

Teaching and Curriculum Development

* Teach ESL courses at ERI's EarthRights Schools (ERS) based in Thailand, developing different courses for different level students.
* Teach human rights report writing and research courses, developing or adjusting curriculum, as necessary.
* Oversee current affairs reading comprehension sessions on request.
* Gather and organize resources and teaching aides relevant to ERS course areas.
* Manage a centralized collection of currriculum and lesson plans/learning strategies.

Salary: $30's plus benefits for full-time work

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)--an independent, nonprofit
organization dedicated to the defense of press freedom around the world--
seeks a research associate for the Middle East & North Africa program to work in our New York office.

We are pleased to present the 8th edition of Human Rights Nights - a festival of cinema and arts dedicated to human rights - taking place in Bologna and Forlì from 12 to 20 April 2008.

This year's theme is Resistance, and will feature films, conferences, art exhibits, performances and music. We dedicate this years festival to Resistance as an homage to everyone who struggles to survive in situations of war, colonialism, slavery, poverty and in everyday life difficulties and alienations in contemporary society. We will focus on the strength of the people involved in Resistence movements, who are empowered by their acts of defiance and human dignity. It is thus a positive perspective on those who at times are viewed instead simply as victims. Human Rights Nights celebrates warriors of peace and justice.

PHR seeks a highly qualified, experienced advocate to work on issues arising from U.S. interrogation, detention, and asylum policies. Position is based in Washington, D.C.

Under the direction of PHR’s Washington Director, the Advocacy Associate will implement advocacy strategies to advance PHR’s Campaign Against Torture and PHR’s advocacy safeguarding the rights of asylum seekers. S/he will use PHR’s rigorously researched reports and other advocacy material to defend and advance rights-based anti- torture and asylum policies. S/he will participate in researching, writing, and editing campaign materials, participate in developing media strategies and policy objectives, and represents PHR in coalition meetings and public events.

PHR seeks a highly qualified, senior-level leader to head its Custody Program.

Under the direction of the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Custody Officer (CCO) sets priorities, develops strategic plans and implements research and advocacy to advance PHR’s Custody programs including the Campaign Against Torture, an initiative to end illegal US interrogation policies; the Asylum Network, a consortium of health professionals that provides medical evaluations for asylum seekers and conducts advocacy to end US asylum and detention policies that violate human rights; and the Istanbul Protocol Implementation Project that continues PHR groundbreaking monitoring and documentation of torture internationally. S/he oversees strategies to monitor the role of health professionals and adherence to medical ethics principles in custodial settings. She/he oversees the development and implementation of rigorous research and strong advocacy campaigns, the publication of reliable, comprehensive, insightful and timely reports and the use of those reports and other advocacy material to best defend and advance promotion and protection of human rights in detention centers and prisons and the efforts to hold perpetrators accountable. S/he provides strategic leadership on campaign materials, participates in developing media strategies and policy objectives, including meetings with UN bodies and individual governments, US policymakers and international institutions and representatives of health professional associations. The CCO supports efforts to raise funds, identify and recruit donors and draft funding proposals.

Naomi Roht-Arriaza

International law holds that reparations must be paid for serious
violations of human rights and humanitarian law, yet doing so in
situations where there are thousands of victims and scarce resources can
be challenging even for well-intentioned governments. Reparations programs
in Peru and Guatemala raise new possibilities, problems and dilemmas in
the wake of large scale rights violations.

April 3, 2008 | 5pm | 315 Wheeler Hall (Maude Fife Room) - UC Berkeley

Col. (Ret.) Lawrence B. Wilkerson, U.S. Army
Lt. Col. V. Stuart Couch, U.S. Marine Corps
Lt. Col. (Ret.) Stephen E. Abraham, U.S. Army Reserve

Moderator: Adam Hochschild, Graduate School of Journalism
American practices in pursuing the “war on terror” have compelled some military officers to speak out in defense of Constitutional protections and international law. They have raised objections to abusive interrogations and unfair court proceedings of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and other U.S. military installations.

Sponsored by the Human Rights Center, Human Rights Law Clinic and Berkeley Project on Law and Terrorism (Boalt Hall School of Law), and co-sponsors The World Affairs Council of Northern California and Human Rights Watch.

F/T Position Available:

(Brussels or London)
Women's Rights Division
Deadline for Applications: May 31, 2008
Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) seeks an experienced professional to undertake advocacy on global women’s human rights issues with European institutions and countries and conduct research and advocacy on women’s rights in Europe and Central Asia.

Rutgers Law Review, in conjunction with Rutgers Center for the Study of
Genocide and Human Rights, will host a *symposium *in commemoration of *the
sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide*.

Wednesday, April 2, 12pm - 1:20pm, Room TBA

Over the past two weeks, Tibet has experienced its worst violence in 20 years. The Chinese crackdown on Tibetan protesters has left hundreds wounded, dead and detained. Sympathetic protests in support of Tibet have spread through China, Nepal, India and beyond. Events continue to develop in the shadow of the upcoming Olympics. Join us for lunch and a discussion of the current crisis with:

· T.Kumar, Advocacy Director for Asia and the Pacific, Amnesty International USA;
· John Ackerly, President, International Campaign for Tibet; and
· Paul Donowitz, Students for a Free Tibet (invited).

No registration necessary. Lunch will be served.

For additional information, please contact the Center by emailing humlaw@wcl.american.edu or by calling 202.274.4180.