Human Rights Internships and Jobs
Below is a list of non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations that are active in the human rights field. Though this list is necessarily incomplete, it is provided as a resource for those thinking about summer or post-graduate employment in this area. A list of job search sites is also included at the bottom of the page.
Human Rights Institutes and Non-Governmental Organizations
Organizations with a United States base (many also have offices abroad):
- American Bar Association | jobs
- American Civil Liberties Union | jobs
- Amnesty International USA | jobs
- CARE | jobs
- Carter Center | jobs
- Center for Constitutional Rights | jobs
- Center for Economic and Social Rights | jobs
- Center for Justice and Accountability | jobs
- Center for Justice and International Law | jobs
- Center for Victims of Torture | jobs
- Coalition for the International Criminal Court | jobs
- Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking | volunteer
- Committee to Protect Journalists | jobs
- Doctors Without Borders | jobs
- EarthRights International | jobs
- François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
- Freedom House | jobs
- Global Fund for Women | jobs | internships
- Global Lawyers and Physicians
- Global Rights | jobs
- Human Rights First | jobs
- Human Rights Watch | jobs
- Indian Law Resource Center | jobs
- International Center for Transitional Justice | jobs
- International Crisis Group | jobs
- International Labor Rights Fund ("jobs/internship" link on left of page)
- Jesuit Refugee Service
- MADRE | internships
- Mental Disability Rights International | jobs
- Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights | jobs
- Open Society Institute | jobs
- OXFAM | jobs
- Physicians for Human Rights | jobs
- Refugees International | jobs
- RFK Memorial: Center for Human Rights | jobs
- Save the Children | jobs
- United Nations Foundation | jobs
- U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants | jobs
- WILD (Women's Institute for Leadership Development) for Human Rights | jobs
Organizations based outside the United States:
- AIDS Law Project (South Africa)
- Al Haq | jobs (West Bank)
- Amnesty International: International Secretariat | jobs (UK)
- Anti-Slavery International | jobs (UK)
- Article 19 | jobs (UK)
- Centre for Equal Rights in Accommodation (Canada)
- Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation | jobs (South Africa)
- Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions | jobs (Switzerland)
- Danish Institute for Human Rights (Denmark)
- Equitas | jobs (Canada)
- Global March Against Child Labour | jobs (India)
- International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (France)
- International Commission of Jurists | jobs (Switzerland)
- International Committee of the Red Cross | jobs (Switzerland)
- International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (Austria)
- International Service for Human Rights | jobs | internships (Switzerland)
- Interights | jobs (UK)
- Minority Rights Group International (UK)
- Redress | jobs | internships (UK)
- World Organisation Against Torture | jobs (Switzerland)
International Human Rights Bodies
Courts and Tribunals
- International Criminal Court | jobs
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | jobs (see ICTR Opportunities)
- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia | jobs
- Special Court for Sierra Leone | jobs | internships
- International Court of Justice
Other International Bodies
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights | jobs
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | jobs
- United Nations Development Program | jobs
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- United Nations Development Fund for Women | jobs
- United Nations Children's Fund | jobs
- International Organization for Migration | jobs
Regional Human Rights Bodies
The Americas
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights | internships
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights | jobs
- Organization of American States | jobs
Africa
Europe
Job Search Sites
- Public Service Law Network: public interest job listings (login required)
- Idealist: non-profit job listings, many of which are non-legal
- Foreign Policy Association: legal, development, humanitarian, and policy job listings
- American Society of International Law: extensive list of organizations that provide international law internships, fellowships, and jobs
- Relief Web: humanitarian jobs, many of which are non-legal
- Association for Women's Rights in Development: women's rights and development jobs, many of which are non-legal
- Human Rights Jobs: email opics@law.georgetown.edu for password
- Human Rights Tools: see also the links on the right and left sides of the screen
- Lawyers Without Borders: click on "jobs" for legal job listings
- Pine Tree Legal Assistance: legal aid jobs worldwide
- Human Rights Internet: human rights jobs
- One World: public interest jobs, many of which are non-legal
- Human Rights Resource Center: human rights jobs
- United Nations: UN jobs; click on "human rights" or "legal affairs"
- United Nations System of Organizations: job listings with UN agencies
- United Nations Development Program: UNDP jobs
- Eldis: development jobs, many of which are non-legal
- National Immigration Project: immigration jobs, listed by the National Lawyers Guild
- Intjobs.org: job vacancies at international organizations
- Non-profit career network: non-profit jobs, many of which are non-legal
