Internships

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Gain Experience with Leading Humanitarian and Human Rights Actors

Our LLM students have the opportunity, during Spring Semester, to acquire first-hand professional experience via internships with Geneva-based humanitarian and human rights actors. These include the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Commission of Jurists, or Geneva Call.

Places in this internship programme are limited and offered via a competitive selection process carried out by our partner organizations. For selected students, internships replace two optional courses and can be validated for 6 ECTS credits.

Internship Opportunities

For the 2021–2022 academic year, we are offering students internships with the following institutions:*

• Association for the Prevention of Torture
• Center for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
• Centre for Civil and Political Rights
• Centro Nacional de Memoria Historica (Colombia)
• Civitas Maxima
• Diakonia: IHL Center
• Geneva Call
• Geneva Centre for Security Policy
  
• Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance
• Geneva Cities Hub
• Geneva Human Rights Platform
• Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes (GAAMAC)
• Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining
• Global Migration Centre
• Human Rights House Foundation
• Human Rights Now
• International Campaign to Ban Landmines
• International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
• International Commission of Jurists
• International Committee of the Red Cross :International Review of the Red Cross,  Legal Division, Casebook, Law and Policy Forum
• International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
• International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies: Disaster Law Programme
• International Law Commission
• International Service for Human Rights
• Justice Rapid Response (JRR)
• Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Organization for World Peace
• Research Projects on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Geneva Academy)
  
• Research Project on Armed Non-State Actors (Geneva Academy)
  
• Research Project on Lethal Autonomous Weapons and War Crimes (Graduate Institute, International Law Department)
• Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts online portal (Geneva Academy)
• Small Arms Survey
• swisspeace
• Task Force Dealing with the Past (Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
• TRIAL International
• The Global Fund for Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
• UNAIDS
• UNICEF
• University of Essex - Essex Transitional Justice Network

*This list is subject to change.