fellowship

alsingace - أحد, 2007-09-23 00:09 By alsingace

Postgraduate Fellowship Course: TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE
FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION
We are pleased to send you information about the Postgraduate
Fellowship Course on Transparency, Accountability and the Fight
against Corruption (Diploma de Postítulo en Transparencia,
Accountability y Lucha contra la Corrupción), organized by the Human
Rights Center (Centro de Derechos Humanos – CDH) of the University of
Chile's Law School. This capacity-building program, which will take
place from 10 March to 25 July 2008, will combine online teaching (17
weeks) with classroom-based teaching and other academic activities
(two weeks at the beginning and one week at the end of the course), in
Santiago de Chile. The program, designed to train Latin American
professionals working in the public sector, the private sector, civil
society organizations and the international arena, will provide
participants with an important theoretical foundation
of fundamental concepts in this field. They will study the principal
areas and problems corruption presents to establishing a
well-functioning democracy and to the exercise of fundamental rights.
Likewise, they will examine the various strategies that have been
applied, not only to eliminate this phenomenon, but also to build
democratic
societies that are more transparent, participatory, and respectful of

alsingace - أحد, 2007-09-23 00:07 By alsingace
HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES PROGRAM 2008 (Colombia University)
The application for the 2008 session of the annual Human Rights
Advocates Program (HRAP) at Columbia
University is now available. I would like to take this opportunity to
ask you to disseminate this information and
application to human rights activists based in the Global South as
well as grassroots activists in the United States.
HRAP is designed to prepare proven human rights leaders from the
Global South and marginalized communities in
the U.S. to participate in national and international policy debates
on globalization by building their skills,
knowledge, and contacts. The Program features a four-month residency
at Columbia University in New York City
with a structured curriculum of advocacy, networking, skills-building,
and academic coursework.
Since 2004, HRAP has concentrated its support on individuals and
organizations that address issues broadly related
to globalization.
The four-month intensive capacity building program based at Columbia
University in New York focuses on the
following key issue areas:
- Environmental injustice
- Labor rights violations
- Abuses by multinational corporations
- Ramifications of resource extraction
- Public health crises
- Unsustainable development
- Intolerance, xenophobia, and social exclusion related to globalization

alsingace - ثلث, 2007-07-31 22:16 By alsingace

2008 Oal Fellowship: Journalism and Human Rights

Posted: 7-23-07

The search for the Oak Fellowship for Human Rights at Colby College for Fall 2008 will be for a journalist working to promote human rights. The OAK fellowship offers a semester in residence at Colby, giving respite from front line human rights work, a $32K stipend, plus medical insurance, transportation, housing and utilities.

For more information please see http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/goldfarb/oak/

Applications forms will be available on line in late August. We will send a formal brochure announcing the fellowship at that time. If you know of individuals who might be deserving of this opportunity or organizations who might be able to assist in identifying candidates, we would appreciate any leads to add to our database for our August mailing. Please send any replies to

oakhr@colby.edu .