Human Rights Internship and Research Program


Position: Intern/volunteer
Location: Kathmandu
Enrollment: Round the year.
Salary: Unpaid

Nepal is in the peace process after decade-long Maoist conflict. National and International human rights organizations are actively watching and monitoring the rights situation in the country. At the same time, we have launched an internship, volunteer and research program in this field. We hope that it can help the eager students or professionals to gain exciting experience and knowledge in the field of human rights in a conflict-affected third world country.

Program:

Intern/volunteer will spend the first week after joining the Internship Nepal (IN) generally in familiarization activities. On the second week, he/she will work at an NGO, INGO or other organization to know issues and simultaneously develop ideas for news, features, research work related to human rights.

IN may ask intern/volunteer to submit brief periodical reports, outlining his/her works and professional achievement, so that he/she could be assigned for writing on appropriate issues in a more relevant perspective. It is published in a human rights media which is our partner organization.

However, such a report may not always be deemed necessary, especially when intern/volunteer is in regular touch, briefing their works orally to the IN team.

After being familiar with the issues and situation, he/she may also choose to work for IN directly with us. Normally, this phase is after one month. When they work directly with IN they will write news, feature or take photos of events for the media.