Internships for undergraduate and postgraduate UNSW students
The AHRCentre has several internships available each year. Currently, the internships are available to UNSW law students or alumni only.
- UG Placement with Human Rights and Public Interest Organisation in Sydney
- Trade and Human Rights Research Program
If you are a current UNSW Law Student and would like to apply one of these internships please use the application forms above or email ahrc@unsw.edu.au
Other Student Opportunities
Migrant and Refugee Rights Intern Program
Led by Bassina Farbenblum, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Project engages in research, advocacy, litigation and law reform to advance the human rights of refugees and migrants in Australia and Asia. It runs a clinical program in which UNSW Law students gain practical experience in multifaceted approaches to human rights litigation and advocacy in both domestic and international settings, in collaboration with regional partner organisations The MRRP’s current advocacy projects and cases in development focus on transparency and accountability with respect to Australia’s role in the interception and detention of asylum seekers in South-East Asia.
Asia Pacific Migrant/Refugee Rights Intern Program
LAWS3060 JURD7360
About the Internship Program
The Asia Pacific Migrant and Refugee Rights Internship Program is an experiential learning program within the Australian Human Rights Centre’s Migrant and Refugee Rights Project. Students gain practical experience in multifaceted approaches to human rights litigation and advocacy in both domestic and international settings, in collaboration with non-government organisations and law clinics in the Asia Pacific region. The program aims to strengthen students’ professional research, writing, advocacy, and problem-solving skills through work on specific international and domestic litigation and advocacy projects.
Current projects and cases focus on transparency and accountability in relation to Australia’s role in the interception and detention of asylum seekers in South-East Asia.
Prerequisites
Students are required to have completed Litigation 1 & 2, Legal Research and Writing, and Law, Lawyers and Society. Completion of Administrative Law is desirable. Preference will be given to students who have completed an elective in international human rights, refugee law or public interest litigation.
Assessment
Students will undertake casework and research within the Migrant and Refugee Rights Project for at least 13 working days per session. Assessment will be based on three reflective notes and a portfolio of written material completed during the internship.
Application Process
Internship places are strictly limited and interns are selected through a competitive application process. Students are required to submit a cover letter (expression of interest), CV and academic transcript (informal is acceptable) via email to Bassina Farbenblum, Director of the Migrant and Refugee Rights Project, at b.farbenblum@unsw.edu.au
AHRC and Legal Aid NSW Fellowship (Postgraduate UNSW Students)
Legal Aid NSW in partnership with the UNSW Faculty of Law and the Australian Human Rights Centre has established a Human Rights Fellowship Program for graduate law students. The fellowship program has been developed to give UNSW law students interested in human rights legal practice an opportunity to gain hands-on work experience at Legal Aid NSW.
Fellowship Program Outline
One fellowship is currently available for a UNSW graduate law student to undertake the 26 week clinical component of the College of Law Practical Training Course Professional Program working in the Human Rights Unit of legal Aid NSW. The student will gain experience in human rights advocacy, assisting with the preparation of legal cases, law reform, training and education. The student will be paid a salary for the period of the fellowship.
Please find the 2011 application form here.
Applicants will be accepted until Friday 2nd December 2011. Late applications will not be considered.
China Model United Nations Delegation
Please note this initiative is for UNSW Law Students only
During the last four years, the AHRCentre and the Faculty of Law have participated in the student Model UN meeting in China at the invitation of the Australian Human Rights Commission. The initiative is a joint venture of the United Nations Association of China and the Australian Human Rights Commission, and forms a part of the Australia-China Human Rights Technical Cooperation Program. UNSW is the only foreign university invited to participate.
Previous Model UN's have been held in Chengdu, Harbin, Xiamen & Beijing.
The 2010 Model UN was held at Sichuan International Studies University in Chongqing, one of China's four centrally controlled municipalities (the others being Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin) on 12 – 15 November 2010.
Download a sample application form here.
Applications must be lodged with Andrea Durbach, Director, Australian Human Rights Centre, Faculty of Law, UNSW (a.durbach@unsw.edu.au). Late applications will not be considered.
Other Opportunites to work with AHRCentre
AHRCentre SEMINAR PROGRAM
The AHRCentre organises an extensive seminar program each year featuring Australian and international scholars, practitioners and human rights advocates addressing a broad range of human rights issues. We also screen films and organise symposia, book launches and art and photographic exhibitions. For information about our seminars, please see News and Events etc etc . Please contact us if you would like to present a seminar as part of our annual program.
ANNUAL AHRCentre PUBLIC LECTURE
In 2005, the AHRCentre held its inaugural AHRC Annual Public Lecture with Australian author, David Malouf addressing the topic, Challenging Indifference. The annual lecture features an Australian or international speaker on a topic of contemporary human rights significance. Subsequent speakers have included Prof Conor Gearty (London School of Economics) on Human Rights, Human Security and the National Interest, Prof Sandra Liebenberg (University of Stellenbosch) on the Role of the South African Constitution in Transforming Human Rights, Prof Stephan Parmentier, (Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium) on Human Rights and Reconciliation in Times of Transition and Emerita Professor Frances Raday (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) on Religious challenges to human rights - Can secularism contribute to peace-making in the Middle East? In 2010, former human rights activist, lawyer and judge of the South African Constitutional Court, Albie Sachs presented the joint UNSW Law Faculty Annual Hal Wootten/AHRC Annual Public Lecture on Truth, Reconciliation, Justice and Gross Violations of the Past.
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