next internships start on 2025-02-03 for Spring, on 2025-05-02 for Summer and on 2025-08-25 for Autumn. more information upon request at mailto:info@gdh-ghr.org
Every year, gva4HR trains many students in its Internship and Fellowship Programme. Our internships run for a period of three to six months and are full-time. However, we are flexible for students in or near Geneva and accept that they continue to follow a few courses at their university/institute, except during our Geneva Courses.
Our internships and fellowship are an immersive, interactive and intensive training as well as personal project. It is designed to empower our interns and to support them in the use of UN and international human rights procedures. Interns will be exposed to the realities of the debates and dynamics at play.
We aim at co-creating a meaningful internship experience where the interest of the intern, its academy and our ngo meet and join. Interns are new professionals, about to finish or just finish graduate schools, with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to join our organisation.
Our programmes of internships and fellowships is an experience really intended for the intern:
- What can the intern work and activities add value to our mission and aims while also providing valuable career experience?
- What experiences can the organization provide the intern that will make them a more competitive future applicant?
- What projects have supports in place where the intern can engage in active learning in a safe space?
Our internships are experiences we construct for future and new professionals who need some real-world experience as they enter the profession. Purposefully constructing meaningful internship experiences helps ensure that our new colleagues and future practitioners have the experiences they need to successfully enter the field of international relations, human, environmental and humanitarian international law as well as diplomacy.
Knowing the specifications for what makes for a successful internship experience helps both the interns-fellows and our organisations and its circles with a focus on successful projects (and internship) completion.
Our IFP programme combines the theory, the exchanges on the experience of the participants (field situations) and the exposure to the multilateral reality (UN system), which the interns monitor
gva4HR recruits interns to constitute a multidisciplinary and international team. We welcome applications from students and graduates in international relations, international law and economics, who are motivated in the promotion of human rights, social justice and (sustainable) development.
As gva4HR has no funding, all gva4HR internships are unpaid. Interns have to cover themselves the costs associated with their internship (travel, accommodation, living expenses). gva4hr nevertheless supports interns in providing documentation for grants request or financial support claims.
However, gva4HR’s Internship Programme constitutes a unique training opportunity. gva4HR offers all its interns a specific training on the U.N. human rights bodies and the human rights procedures.
Our internships intend to bridge research and study to real worlds issues and victims.
All the interns participate free of charge in gva4HR’s Geneva Course for defenders in the regions. gva4HR trainers animate weekly study meetings with the interns to discuss and analyze the ongoing UN meetings and to review the reports of the interns on the human rights sessions.
Internships at gva4HR provide invaluable practical and technical experience in human rights, humanitarian and environmental law, in research and study, in diplomacy and international relations, in project management and public relations.
Each internship serves as a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience, working intimately on projects within a human rights organization that holds consultative status in UN ECOSOC.
Interns may be granted accreditation badges, allowing them to attend meetings at the UN in Geneva, thereby facilitating a complete immersion in an international environment.
The internship positions are flexible, available on a full-time or part-time basis, contingent upon an agreement with the university, and can be conducted in a hybrdi manner (remotely and in person).
However, spending a portion of the internship physically present at gva4HR would be advantageous.
Upon completion of the internship, the we may graciously provide interns with a letter of recommendation and a certificate to acknowledge their contributions and accomplishments.
