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The Kurdish Human Rights Project
http://www.khrp.org

Contact Information:
Anna Irvin
0207 405 3835
khrp@khrp.org
http://www.khrp.org/content/view/233/73/

Fantastic opportunity to contribute to the development of the new Feeney Centre for Research and Dialogue which is part of an established, independent, non-political human rights organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of the human rights of all persons in the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and elsewhere. The Kurdish Human Rights Project pioneered bringing the individual petition before the European Court of Human Rights. KHRP is a registered charity founded in London in 1992 working with its partner organisations in the regions. It functions as a catalyst for justice through its analysis, advocacy and action. The successful candidate would manage the output of KHRP print and e-publications undertaking the editing, design and layout, updating the website, liaise with the printers and co-ordinate the outreach of KHRP materials. The role would also include the co-ordination of the organisation's communications, maintaining and developing the Resource Centre, and a variety of other communications/ smaller publications related tasks.

PHR seeks a highly qualified, experienced professional to manage its communication efforts.

The Chief Communication Officer is responsible for the creation and implementation of a strategic communications plan to advance PHR’s mission and program agenda through a range of communications tools, in particular: the media, Internet, publications and marketing efforts. S/he interfaces with all of the other department directors and staff. S/he reports to the Chief Executive Officer and is a member of the Executive Management Team

Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) is seeking a Coordinator of Membership and Information Services to provide critical database administration and technical support to its Development & Outreach department.

Description: The Coordinator of Membership and Information Services will administer the departmental data management systems in support of department-wide goals and functions and provide customer support to a growing direct marketing program. S/he must have advanced knowledge of the current version of Raiser’s Edge and experience working with customers over the phone and by email.

On Tuesday 25 March the human rights organisation Aim for human rights launched a website that facilitates the international fight against enforced disappearances. The event took place during a meeting of the Pakistan NGO Support Group in Geneva.

The following is an announcement for a film. We have not seen it:

Follow Emmy-Award Winning Filmmaker Lisa Jackson

As She Travels Alone Through the War-Torn Jungles of Eastern Congo

When The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo Premieres TONIGHT, April 8 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on HBO

Since 1998, a brutal war has ravaged the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing over 4 million people. Over the same time, tens of thousands of women and girls have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers – both from foreign militias and the Congolese army that is supposed to protect them. In the last ten years, hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been raped – but their suffering goes unacknowledged. Instead, they are invisible, shamed and mute.

The following are 2 different protests being planned for the Olympic Torch Relay tomorrow in San Francisco. One is a protest of human rights violations in China with Amnesty International. And the other about China's tacit complicity with the Sudanese regime vis a vis the genocide in Darfur. People will also be protesting the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

Application Deadline: May 23, 2008

The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) in San Diego, California, is currently accepting applications for its Women PeaceMakers Program (WPM). The WPM program is designed for leaders from conflict-affected countries around the world who are transforming conflict and assuring gender-inclusion in post conflict recovery through in human rights advocacy and peace building efforts they lead. These are women whose stories and best practices will be shared internationally; they are women who will have a respite from the frontlines work they do.

Rights & Democracy is currently accepting nominations for the John Humphrey Freedom Award, which is presented every year to an organization or person who has made an outstanding contribution to the promotion of human rights and democratic development. The award consists of a grant of $30,000 as well as a speaking tour of Canadian cities to help increase awareness of the recipient's human rights work.

Please note that a nomination presented last year can be submitted again this year. The deadline for nominations is April 15, 2008. To obtain information on eligibility criteria, consult our Website: www.dd-rd.ca.

The Poznan Human Rights Centre and Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Law and Administration, in partnership with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Lund, Sweden) and with financial support of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights are organizing the 17-th edition of the Course on International Protection of Human Rights - Rights of National Minorities.

This two-week program is a comprehensive graduate level course, taught by nine renowned scholars in a seminar setting. Incorporating genocide theory, history, sociology, political science and international law, it explores through a comparative analysis of major case studies and special themes, such issues as:

The Foundations of Human Rights
Methodology of Comparative Genocide Research
The Causes, Operation & Consequences of Genocide
Genocide and International Law
Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation
Genocide Denial
Genocide Prevention

This summer, join a diverse group of highly motivated international students in this unique program, held July 28-August 8, 2008, in Toronto, Canada.

Email: admin@genocidestudies.org
www.genocidestudies.org

The GHRUP is accredited for three graduate credits by the University of Toronto

The Role of the Law School in Promoting and Protecting Human Rights

April 21 -22, 2008

American University Washington College of Law
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
4801 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20016

This important conference will bring together law professors and practitioners from around the globe to share experiences and exchange models and information about the ways in which law schools impact the human rights field. The conference will open with a dinner and keynote presentation by Professor Michael Tigar, celebrating his work and his move to Emeritus status at the Washington College of Law. The full day event on April 22nd will provide a forum for discussion about the challenges and successes of law schools engaged inhuman rights work, and will highlight the diverse ways in which law schools integrate human rights work into their formal and informal initiatives. The dinner and conference are free of charge. Please register at www.wcl.american.edu/secle.

Contributors include Ramsey Clark, Samir Amin, William Blum, Jan Myrdal, Michael Parenti, Jean Bricmont, Les Roberts, Genevieve Sevrin (Amnesty International, France), Antoine Bernard (International Federation of Human Rights), Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima

"Those who seek to bestow legitimacy must themselves embody it; those who invoke international law must themselves submit to it."
KOFI ANNAN

INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE AND
IMPUNITY
The Case of the United States

EDITORS:
NILS ANDERSSON, DANIEL IAGOLNITZER, DIANA G. COLLIER

The Campaign to Ban Torture seeks a self-motivated, innovative intern to advance our organizational goals through social networking on Facebook. The intern would be responsible for creating, designing and operating the Campaign to Ban Torture’s Facebook page. The goal of this position will to increase the organization’s online presence by reaching a larger audience especially through our spreadable media.

The One World Trust and the All Party Parliamentary Group on World Governance invite you to Parliamentary discussion on

Poverty and Human Rights as a Global Governance Challenge

Monday, 9 June 2008
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Grand Committee Room
House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Speakers: Pierre Sané
Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO

Consultant Position Available:
OUTREACH COORDINATOR
Development & Outreach Department
(New York Office)
Apply Immediately

Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) is seeking a highly-qualified consultant for the position of Outreach Coordinator for its International Film Festival.

Human Rights Watch seeks a Senior Multimedia Producer to develop, create and produce multimedia content. S/he will direct a staff of two, as well as a stable of consulting editors, in creating visually compelling and journalistically excellent features that complement and enhance Human Rights Watch’s research and advocacy.

Just Foreign Policy is looking for a summer intern to help with its work around Ethiopia and human rights. The intern’s work will vary based upon her or his interests, but will include a good bit of writing, researching, and possible legislative work. Related tasks will include advocacy work and general campaign coordination. The intern should be organized and detail oriented, have excellent writing skills, and able to work well on her or his own. Experience with graphic or web design is a plus, but is not required.

Introducing
Law & Ethics of Human Rights
http://www.bepress.com/lehr

The Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to announce the launch of Law & Ethics of Human Rights, a major new journal of human rights, law, and policy. For more about the journal, see description below.