Oak Institute - 2010 Oak Fellowship - Human Rights Activists

Oak Institute Now Accepting Applications for 2010 Oak Fellowship Location: United States
Fellowship Deadline: 2009-12-15 (in 23 days)
Date Submitted: 2009-10-16
Announcement ID: 171343

The Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights at Colby College is pleased to issue a call for nominations and applications for the 2010 Oak Human Rights Fellowship. The Oak Fellowship annually offers an opportunity for one prominent practitioner in international human rights to take a sabbatical leave from front-line work to spend the fall semester (September - December) in residence at Colby. This provides the fellow time for respite, reflection, research, and writing. Following the period of the award, the fellow is expected to return home to continue human rights work.
For the Oak Fellowship in residence at Colby College during the fall of 2010, we seek front-line human rights activists advocating for those incarcerated. Areas of work for prisoners' rights include but are not limited to living standards and health care in prisons, pretrial detention, illegal imprisonment, detained non-citizens, the right of legal representation, juvenile detention, education and practical training for inmates, post-detention rehabilitation, families of inmates, disciplinary procedures, prison privatization, gender and racial discrimination in incarceration, political prisoners, prisoners of war, torture, sexual abuse, brutality, and the death penalty.

We especially encourage applications from those who are currently or were recently involved in on-the-ground work at some level of personal risk and are in need of respite. Activists must be centrally engaged in work outside of the United States.

The appointment is for the fall semester of 2010 (mid-August through mid-December). Responsibilities include participation in a lecture series or symposium in the Fellow's area of expertise and regular interaction with Colby students through a one credit non-graded discussion class. The College provides a stipend of $32,000, plus transportation, housing, health care coverage, and other fringe benefits. We encourage the fellow to bring family through limited financial support for their travel as well.

Completed applications must arrive no later than December 15, 2009. Applications can be submitted online or via email. More information, including the application, is available on the Institute's webpage Final selection will be announced by April 15, 2010.

Professor Patrice Franko, Director
Susanna Thompson, Assistant Director
Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights
Colby College
5300 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901

Email: oakhr@colby.edu
Visit the website at http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/goldfarb/oak/

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