Where have Fordham Law Students interned in the past?
Over the summer, the Internship Program provides students with grants of up to $5,000 to work with international human rights organizations full-time for ten weeks over the summer. Applicants complete a detailed proposal and select an organizational partner, such as a non-governmental organization or UN agency, with whom they will work. Upon their return, Leitner Interns file a report summarizing their experience and make a presentation to the law school community. The Leitner Center now has available a binder / database of past summer Leitner internships broken down by region and year. The binder is available as a resource to aid students in their search for summer internships. Please visit the Center (2nd Fl, 33 West 60th St) to view the binder.

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA


GHANA
Centre for Population Education and Human Rights [2010]
Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution Department of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) [2009]
Kumasi Central Prison [2009]
Supreme Court of Ghana [2008]
Legal Resources Center [2010, 2007]

MALAWI
Malawi Human Rights Resource Center
[2010, 2008]

RWANDA
Institute of Legal Practice and Development [2009]

SOUTH AFRICA
Treatment Action Campaign [2009, 2006]
Parliamentary Monitoring Group
[2009]
Idasa
[2009]
Open Democracy Advice Center
[2009]
Women’s Legal Centre
[2008]
Freedom of Expression Institute
[2007]
Southern Africa Litigation Centre
[2006]
HIV/AIDS Human Rights Research Centre at University of Pretoria
[2006]
Penal Reform Project
[2005]

TANZANIA
United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
[2010, 2008, 2005]

SIERRA LEONE
Center for Safe Motherhood, Youth and Child Outreach (CESMYCO)
[2010]
Timap for Justice
[2010]

UGANDA
Slum Aid Project [2010]
Foundation for Human Rights Initiative
[2009]

ZIMBABWE
Legal Resources Foundation
[2006]

 

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHEN AFRICA


EGYPT
St. Andrews Refugee Resettlement Legal Aid Office
[2010]

ISRAEL
Hotline for Migrant Workers
[2010]
Miklat’s Israel Center for Family Justice [2006]

MOROCCO
l’Organisation Marocaine des Droits Humains
[2007]

 

AMERICAS


ARGENTINA
Asociacion por los Derechos Civiles
[2008]
Center for Human Rights and the Environment (CEDHA)
[2008]

BOLIVIA
Institute of International Studies of Bolivia (IDEI) [2009, 2008]
International Justice Mission
[2008]

BRAZIL
Grupo Pela Vidda de Rio de Janeiro (GPV/RJ)
[2005]
Fundaçao Alavanca [2005]

COLOMBIA
Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society- Dejusticia
[2008]

COSTA RICA
CEFEMINA
[2006]

CUBA
Union Nacional de Juristas de Cuba & The Center for Cuban Studies
[2004]

ECUADOR
Chevron Litigation [2010, 2008, 2006]

GUATEMALA
Asociacion Grupo Ceiba
[2007]

JAMAICA
Independent Jamaica Council for Human Rights [2009]
UNAIDS Jamaica Office [2009]

MEXICO
Proyecto de Derechos Economicos, Sociales y Culturales (ProDESC) [2008]
Sin Fronteras (Without Borders)
[2008]
Acortar Distancias
[2007]

NICARAGUA
Nitlapan
[2010]
Nicoya Mission/ New Haven/ Leon Sister City Project (NHLSCP)
[2009]

PERU
La Comisión Andina de Juristas
[2008]                                       

 

ASIA AND PACIFIC


AUSTRALIA
HIV / AIDS Legal Centre (HALC)
[2010, 2009]

CAMBODIA
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)
[2008]
The Face to Face AIDS Project
[2008]
Cambodian Bar Association
[2004]
East-West Management Institute (EWMI)
[2004]

CHINA
Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers
[2008]

INDIA
PRS Legislative Research, Centre for Policy Research
[2009]
Apne Aap Women Worldwide
[2007]
India Centre for Human Rights and Law
[2006]
Prerana
[2005]

INDONESIA
UN Development Programme – HIV/AIDS Group
[2009]

KOREA
North Korea Freedom Coalition
[2009]

NEPAL
Advocacy Forum-Nepal
[2010, 2009]
Nepal Bar Association
[2005] 

NEW ZEALAND
Wellington Community Law Centre
[2010]

PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR) [2008]

PHILLIPINES
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
[2006]

SRI LANKA
UN Development Programme – HIV/AIDS Group
[2008]

TAJIKISTAN
American Bar Association, Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI)
[2004]

THAILAND
Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia [2010]
MAP Foundation for Ethnic Health and Labour [2010]
Mekong Region Law Center [2008]

 

UNITED STATES


New Haven, CT
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
[2009]

Washington, DC
Political-Military Analysis Center, Hudson Institute
[2009]
Federal Judicial Center – International Judicial Relations Office
[2009]

New York, NY
Asia Law and Justice Center
[2010]
Equality Now
[2010]
Global Justice Center
[2010]
Grameen America
[2010]
Central American Legal Assistance
[2010]
UN OSE for Haiti
[2010]
United Nations Development Programme Red Ribbon Award
[2010, 2009]
Lutheran Social Services- Immigration Legal Services Group
[2010]
Scholars at Risk Network
[2009]
Catholic Charities Community Services in the Department of Immigration of Refugee Services
[2009]
Center for Reproductive Rights
[2010, 2009]
UN Development Programme
[2009, 2008]
National ACLU
[2008]
Center for Human Rights and Global Justice
[2008]
Center for Constitutional Rights
[2008]
Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs
[2007]
Citizenship Initiative Program, International Rescue Committee
[2007]
Human Rights Watch
[2010, 2006]
International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
[2005]

Harlingen, TX
South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR)
[2008] 

 

EUROPE



GREECE
European Public Law Organization
[2008]

HUNGARY
European Roma Rights Centre
[2010]

ITALY
Jesuit Refugee Services
[2008]

NORTHERN IRELAND
Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ)
[2010, 2008]

ROMANIA
Contrast
[2005]

SERBIA
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
[2006]

SWITZERLAND
UNAIDS Headquarters
[2010]



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