Deadline-
- Nomination Deadline- 1 November 2013
- Application Deadline- 6 December 2013
All eligible applicants are being invited to submit applications for Human Rights Fellowship Program offered by Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights. This program mainly focuses on Gender and Human Rights. The main objective of this program is to offer an opportunity for prominent practitioners in international human rights to take a sabbatical leave from their work and spend as long as a semester as a scholar-in-residence at the College. This provides the Fellow time for reflection, research, and writing.
The Oak Fellow’s responsibilities include regular meetings with students either through formal classes or informal discussion groups and assistance in shaping a lecture series or symposium associated with the particular aspect of human rights of interest to the fellow.
Thematic areas-
- sexual and reproductive rights
- gender empowerment and education
- human and sexual trafficking
- activism against gender-based violence
- gender- and sexual-based asylum
- gender and environmental rights
Benefits-
The Fellow will receive a stipend and College fringe benefits, plus round-trip transportation from the fellow’s home site, a two-bedroom apartment, use of a car, and meals on campus. The Fellow will also receive research support, including office space, secretarial support, computer and library facilities, and a student assistant. The Fellowship is awarded for the fall semester (September through December) each year. Following the period of the award, the fellow is expected to return to her or his human rights work.
Eligibility & Criteria-
Eligibility for the Oak Fellowship is restricted to those whose work takes place primarily outside the United States; selection criteria include achievements in the struggle for human rights, the need for respite and removal from danger, and the ability to contribute to the Colby community.
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