The Oak Institute at Colby College is pleased to issue a call for nominations for the 2008 Oak Human Rights Fellowship. The Oak Institute seeks one frontline human rights practitioner working as a journalist outside of the United States for residence at Colby in the fall of 2008.
Possible areas of human rights activity may include, but are not limited to: racial or ethnic discrimination; workers rights in both formal and informal markets; land and resource struggles; environmental human rights; victims of state or organized violence; gender and social exclusion; gay, lesbian, or transgender sexual discrimination; children’s rights; rights of displaced peoples and refugees; rights to religious freedom; or freedom of information. We especially encourage applications from those who are currently or were recently involved in on-the-ground work at some level of personal risk and are in need of respite
About the Oak Institute
The Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights was established in 1998 by a generous grant from the Oak Foundation. Each year, it hosts an Oak Human Rights Fellow to teach and conduct research while residing at the College. The Institute organizes lectures and other events centered around the fellow's area of expertise.
The purpose of the fellowship is to offer an opportunity for one prominent practitioner in international human rights to take a sabbatical leave from front-line work to spend the fall semester (September-December ) in residence at Colby. This provides the Fellow time for respite, reflection, research, and writing. While all human rights practitioners are eligible, we especially encourage applications from those who are currently or were recently involved in "on-the-ground" work at some level of personal risk. Following the period of the fellowship, the fellow is expected to return home to continue her/his human rights work.
Application is available at
http://www.colby. edu/academics_ cs/goldfarb/ oak/upload/ 2008_Oak_ Application. d
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Website: http://www.colby. edu/academics_ cs/goldfarb/ oak/
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