Announcing the: HLS Advocates for Human Rights Fall Training on September 28th and 29th, 2007!
Harvard Law Students and L.L.Ms register by sending us your name, year and contact info to: hlsadvoc@law.harvard.edu
Harvard Graduate Students from other schools are welcome too!
Welcome Class of 2010!
Dear Incoming 1L class of 2010,
Welcome to Harvard Law! As the board of the Harvard Law Student Advocates for Human Rights, we would like to extend an informal invitation to all incoming students to learn more about the opportunities we can offer in Human Rights activism. The goal of HLS Advocates for human rights is to foster a vibrant community of Harvard Law students dedicated to human rights issues, and to promote opportunities to engage in hands-on, human rights work.
Whether you are interested in continuing to conduct human rights legal advocacy in your future personal or professional life, or simply want to work on substantive public interest issues while at HLS, we encourage you to check out the amazing opportunities that HLS Advocates has to offer. If you would like to be involved, please read on below and be sure to come to our mandatory Fall Training the 28th and 29th of September, 2007.
Human Rights Opportunities Your 1L Year!
For six years now, the HLS Advocates have been working closely with the Harvard Human Rights Program in order to engage Harvard students directly in concrete advocacy projects both abroad and at home. As first-year students, it is often difficult to find meaningful, hands-on experience before your first summer internship. The amazing clinical opportunities that the Human Rights Program offers, unfortunately, are only available to second and third-year students. However, as members of the HLS Advocates for Human Rights, you can begin working with Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) partners and community organizations your first semester no matter what level of previous experience you possess!
Contracts, Civil Procedure, Property, Torts…the first year curriculum is filled with important foundational subjects, but very few opportunities to quickly engage yourself with important issues that have a direct impact on the world. Here are a few examples of projects that HLS Advocates members have worked on:
- Aided in presenting a case before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights in Costa Rica concerning torture in Brazilian prisons.
- Conducted field research on the persecution of the Ahmadiyya minority in Bangladesh, with a subsequent article published in the Wall Street Journal describing the situation.
- Developed a conflict analysis tool for use by the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, designed to fuse conflict resolution methodology into the prosecution strategy in situations of grave humanitarian disasters.
- Participated in an intervention before the European Court of Human Rights on the prohibition against deportation when there is a real risk of torture or inhumane treatment.
- Built and sponsored local activist networks to increase awareness concerning the on-going genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
A Human Rights Community…
And hands-on experience is not all that the HLS Advocates has to offer. We are at the heart of a growing and vibrant human rights community together with the Human Rights Program and the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Here are some of the other benefits that we can provide to all interested students:
- Counseling and advice on how to find and succeed in an international internship with human rights NGOs and groups all over the world.
- Direct involvement in organizing conferences and inviting speakers on significant human rights issues.
- Teaching opportunities to share your experience and knowledge in legal issues pertaining to human rights with other students.
- Meeting and interacting closely with Harvard faculty who specialize in human rights issues.
Please Contact Us!
Would you like to know more information? Please let us know! Send any questions to hlsadvoc@law.harvard.edu, or check out our “About” page for more information. And don’t forget to put the dates of our great Fall Training, the 28th and 29th of September in your calendar! Thanks for your interest and we hope to see you at the training!
Sincerely,
Meghan Morris (Co-President)
Deborah Popowski (Co-President)
And the rest of the HLS Advocates Board
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