Call for Applications! for the post of Internship Opportunity at OHCHR! Apply Now!
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is the Secretariat Department responsible for strengthening international human rights mechanisms; enhancing equality and countering discrimination; combating impunity and strengthening accountability and the rule of law; integrating human rights in development and in the economic sphere; widening the democratic space; and early warning and protection of human rights in situations of conflict, violence and insecurity. The intern, under the general guidance of a primary supervisor, will be assigned to the Anti-Racial Discrimination Section (ARDS), located in the Rule of Law, Equality and Non-Discrimination Branch (ROLENDB), based in Geneva, Switzerland. The Anti-Racial Discrimination Section supports States, national human rights institutions, civil society and the United Nations system on implementing the UN’s human rights standards and core work to eliminate racial discrimination, including through the implementation of international human rights standards and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Qualifications/special skills
Candidates should be enrolled in, or have completed, a second university degree or equivalent, or higher; or be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme. -Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent degree) in law, political science, international relations, social sciences or related field is highly desirable.
