Derechos: Human Rights Listings

Amnesty International (AI) is a movement of globally-minded people across the world speaking out and acting up in defense of human rights. We investigate and report on human rights violations, and we educate and mobilize the public until we make a difference.

Founded in 1965, Amnesty International of the USA (AIUSA) is the largest Amnesty section, with 360,000 members, almost half a million on-line activists, and more than a thousand community and student activist groups.

AIUSA Field Organizers (FO) report to one of five Regional Directors, and are assigned territories within which they are responsible for organizing and coordinating the work of AIUSA members and activists, consistent with Amnesty International’s approach to human rights work. FOs support local member groups within their territory with recruiting and engagement events, human rights education and activist training. We currently seek a Field Organizer for the Western Region, located in our San Francisco office.

OMCT has been informed by the office of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Torture that his next report to the UN General Assembly will focus on the conditions of detention of groups in need of special attention. This includes minors, women, migrants, minorities, death row prisoners, persons with disabilities, individuals living with HIV/ AIDS, LGBT, etc. This list is not exhaustive.

Type of information expected: general feedback and recommendations, good practices, country situation (if there has been a country visit by the Special Rapporteur) and specific cases (although in order for the cases to be taken into account in the report, it should be sent ASAP to the Special Rapporteur’s office).

If you wish to contribute to this report, please send relevant information to Ms. Birgit Kainz, Assistant to the Special Rapporteur at BKainz@ohchr.org by June 2009.

Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, a respected seven year-old human rights organization that works in close collaboration with Rabbis for Human Rights (Israel), seeks an Executive Director. The Executive Director reports directly to and works in partnership with the Board of Directors. This position is full-time and open immediately. Position includes moving RHR-NA’s office to New York City or Washington, DC from its current location in Massachusetts.
The Executive Director, in conjunction with the Board of Directors, provides strategic leadership and vision for RHR-NA. The E.D is responsible for RHR-NA’s overall management including development and fundraising, budget and finances, the North American staff and North American programs. The Executive Director reports to and works in close collaboration with the North American Board of Directors and collaborates closely with RHR Israel.

Hello,

I am a political scientist at University of Massachusetts-Amherst studying
the human rights issue agenda. I am conducting a short online survey to
examine the attitudes of those who are supporters of human rights groups or
organizations. Specifically, I am interested in which organizations and
issues human rights supporters like you view as most important to the
movement at this time, and why. I am writing to ask you to share your
opinions on these issues.

The Human Rights Project and the Center for Curatorial Studies
at Bard College invite you to join us at a one-day conference on

MUSIC AND TORTURE

to be held in conjunction with the opening of, and taking place at, Olafur Eliasson's "Parliament of Reality" installation, on Friday 15 May.

Schedule of speakers

10:30AM Opening remarks

10:45AM Chloe Davies, Reprieve and ZeroDB (London)
on music torture

11:30AM David Peisner, SPIN Magazine
"Bring The Noise: How music found its way into American
interrogation booths"

12:15PM John Hamilton, Comparative Literature, NYU
"Torture as an Instrument of Music" (on the brazen bull of
Phalaris)

1:00PM LUNCH + ZeroDB silent protest recording session

2:00PM Thomas Levin, German, Princeton University
"Diabolus in Musica: A Playdoyer for Painful Sounds"

2:45PM Branden Joseph, Art History, Columbia University
"Biomusic"

3:30PM Keynote address by Mark Danner, Chace Professor of Foreign
Affairs, Politics, and Humanities

4:15PM Roundtable discussion moderated by Suzanne Cusick, Music, NYU

5:00PM Closing remarks

In the event of rain, all events will take place in the Multipurpose Room, Bertelsmann Campus Center.

Additional support for the conference provided by the Goethe-Institut New York.

For info call Danielle Riou (riou@bard.edu, 845 758 7110)

NSA is looking for interested professors!

The first edition of the Nablus Summer Academy (NSA) will be held from 5 till 16 July 2009 at the An-Najah National University in Nablus. The NSA particularly aims to train intensively local and international (senior) students and young academic staff. This Summer Academy provides an opportunity for international and regional students and professors to meet and exchange ideas.

Late April 2009, the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched the new
version of the Legal Tools, an online library on international criminal
law and justice which will empower victims and others who seek a judicial
response to atrocities by providing a central vehicle to obtain
information on international criminal law.

The Legal Tools amount to a knowledge-transfer platform for international
criminal and human rights law made freely available to the general public
through the website of the ICC. The Legal Tools Database is the most
comprehensive on international criminal law. It contains more than 40,000
documents, including decisions and indictments from all international or
internationalised criminal tribunals, preparatory works of the ICC, case
documents from the ICC, treaties, information about national legal
systems, and relevant decisions from national courts. The service also
contains a new knowledge-base on national legislation implementing the ICC
Statute.

Full-Time Position Available:
DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Asia Division
Deadline for applications: June 13, 2009

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

Description: Human Rights Watch is seeking a Deputy Director for its Asia Division. The position may be based in New York, Washington, DC, London, Brussels or Asia. The Deputy Director works closely with the Executive Director and other staff to set goals, strategies, and priorities for HRW's work throughout the region. The Deputy Director helps the Executive Director supervise the research staff; assists with editing reports, news releases, briefings, and other communications; conducts advocacy and speaks publicly for the organization, including to the media; and helps with budgeting and administrative matters, including preparation of planning memos and drafting of grant proposals, and serving as a liaison with advisory committee members.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is proud to announce the establishment of the Joseph R. Crapa Fellowship Program in memory of Joe Crapa, who served as Executive Director of USCIRF from 2002-2007. Applications are due by June 15, 2009.

The funded fellowships are available to select individuals with exceptional records of accomplishment and/or outstanding records of academic achievement in relevant fields to the work of the Commission, including but not limited to, human rights, foreign policy, international law, and security. Applicants from the Hill, government agencies (including the military and intelligence agencies), academia, the NGO community, think tanks, and other relevant backgrounds are welcome.

Call for Applications, Fellowships for Threatened Academics: Professors, Researchers and Lecturers

Application Deadline: 15 June 2009

The Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) provides fellowships for established scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. These fellowships permit professors, researchers and other senior academics to find temporary refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world, enabling them to pursue their academic work and to continue to share their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the community at large.

Human Rights Watch is seeking a Researcher on Brazil who will be based either in New York or Washington, DC. The researcher should be prepared to spend substantial periods of time traveling to Brazil. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: monitoring and documenting human rights abuses by collecting and analyzing information from a wide variety of sources including governments, local media, NGOs, journalists, diplomats, security forces and others in the field; carrying out research in the region; writing reports, briefing memos, short reports, statements, op-eds, articles, and press releases, as well as submissions to international bodies, on human rights concerns in the region as needed in a concise and accurate manner, in tight timeframes; responding promptly to queries from the press, public, and colleagues in the human rights community; helping to design and implement local and international advocacy strategies to improve respect for human rights in Brazil, by publicizing research findings, briefing government and U.N. officials, and working with local NGOs and human rights activists; working closely with regional human rights organizations to ensure that the work of HRW in Brazil complements and enhances their own work; and developing recommendations to stop or prevent abuses.

Human Rights Watch is seeking a Researcher on Mexico who will be based either in New York or Washington, DC. The researcher should be prepared to spend substantial periods of time traveling to Mexico. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: monitoring and documenting human rights abuses by collecting and analyzing information from a wide variety of sources including governments, local media, NGOs, journalists, diplomats, security forces and others in the field; carrying out research in the region; writing reports, briefing memos, short reports, statements, op-eds, articles, and press releases, as well as submissions to international bodies, on human rights concerns in the region as needed in a concise and accurate manner, in tight timeframes; responding promptly to queries from the press, public, and colleagues in the human rights community; helping to design and implement local and international advocacy strategies to improve respect for human rights in Mexico, by publicizing research findings, briefing government and U.N. officials, and working with local NGOs and human rights activists; working closely with regional human rights organizations to ensure that the work of HRW in Mexico complements and enhances their own work; and developing recommendations to stop or prevent abuses.

Reporting to the Director of Development & Outreach in Geneva, the Manager will be responsible for supporting HRW's fundraising, advocacy, and outreach efforts in Geneva and Zurich. The Manager's responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: liaising with, servicing and cultivating Committee members and prospects; supporting the Director in soliciting major gifts and general support funds; researching, identifying, and cultivating new prospects; coordinating and providing support for events in Geneva and Zurich, including Committee meetings, researcher briefings and the HRW Annual Dinner in Geneva; creating agendas, preparing background materials, drafting minutes and conducting follow-up to meetings; responding to requests for information and corresponding with Geneva and Zurich Committee members; providing membership support services for Geneva and Zurich, including mailings, gift tracking, gift processing and acknowledgments, using HRW's Raiser's Edge database; creating and tracking donor lists, fundraising, and expenses for both cities; advertising, recruiting, training and coordinating the work of interns for the Geneva Development department; and other tasks as assigned.