Summer Scholarships for Human Rights Internships


Students listed below have been awarded 2009 summer internships through the Human Rights Program. To view information on their respective organizations, click here. Additionally, the International Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School provides Chayes International Public Service Fellowships. For more information on this program, click here.

Rebecca Agule
Pact
Sudan

Alan Cheuk
Justice and Peace Commission/Carter Center
Liberia

Kathleen Gibbons
Human Rights and Law Defenders
India

Brett Jason Hartman
Irish Centre for Human Rights
Ireland

Benjamin Hoffman
DeJuSticia
Colombia

Naomi Mower
HIV/AIDS Unit of the Lawyers Collective
India

Shannon Erwin
BADIL
Palestine

So Jeong Hong
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Tanzania

Lisha Li
UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region
Thailand

Titus Lin
Timap for Justice
Sierra Leone

Nitya Shekar
Alternative Law Forum
India

Namita Wahi
Human Rights Law Network
India

Craig Walzer
The Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program (FMRS) at American University in Cairo (AUC)
Egypt

Leigh Webster
South African Human Rights Commission
South Africa

Additionally, ten Harvard Law School students will participate in human rights summer courses in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Chiang Mai, Thailand. Students will work concurrently with a human rights organization in Buenos Aires or Chiang Mai for a 10-week period. These students and their organizations include:

Rehan Abeyratne
Human Rights Education Institute of Burma
Thailand

Anna Lamut
Human Rights Education Institute of Burma
Thailand

Will Martin
Southeast Asia Rivers Network (SEARIN)
Thailand

Patrick McNally
Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC)
Argentina

Lauren Pappone
EarthRights International
Thailand

Joseph Pileri
Unidos por la Justicia
Argentina

Michael Posner
La Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN)
Argentina

Neha Sheth
Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC, Association for Civil Rights)
Argentina

Claret Vargas
Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS)
Argentina

Kan Yan
Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
Thailand


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