International Commission of Jurists
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The ICJ takes both legal and non-legal interns for between 2 to 6 months. You must be between 22 and 28 years old to take part.
ICJ Interns become part of a team of junior support staff and their responsibilities are based on the intern’s interests as well as the needs of the ICJ. All interns will be expected to undertake some administrative duties in addition to their substantive tasks. Interns are assigned a designated supervisor for the duration of their internship, who will act as mentor and ensure the diversity of professional experiences offered to interns.
The ICJ internship is unfunded, though the ICJ does have discretion to pay for some travel costs and lunches.
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The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is an international human rights non-governmental organisation. The Commission itself is a standing group of 60 eminent jurists (judges and lawyers), including members of the senior judiciary in Australia, Canada, and South Africa and the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson.
The Commission is supported by an International Secretariat based in Geneva, Switzerland, and staffed by lawyers drawn from a wide range of jurisdictions and legal traditions. The Secretariat and the Commission undertake advocacy and policy work aimed at strengthening the role of lawyers and judges in protecting and promoting human rights and the rule of law. In addition, the ICJ has national sections and affiliates in over 70 countries. Given the legal focus of the ICJ's work, membership of these sections is predominantly drawn from the legal profession: lawyers, judges, legal academics and law students.
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