Deadline: 15 April 2011
Open to: qualified graduate students
The Mental Disability Advocacy Center(MDAC) is an international human rights organisation based in Budapest, Hungary, working to advance the rights of people with intellectual disabilities and people with psycho-social disabilities. MDAC works towards six priority human rights themes: legal capacity, living in the community, inclusive education, freedom from ill-treatment, political participation, and access to justice. MDAC is seeking suitably qualified graduate students to intern with us this summer. Internship opportunities are available also throughout the year. There are four openings this summer:
1. Litigation intern
The litigation intern will carry out research on international and comparative law to support strategic litigation before domestic and international courts. This intern needs to be a law graduate with excellent legal research and drafting skills.
2. Employment rights intern
This intern will assist MDAC in compiling data from a research project looking into the denial of “reasonable accommodation” in employment across several European countries. This intern should be a sociology or law graduate.
3. Training development intern
This intern will assist staff to develop a training package on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The intern will gather information, draft sections, gather promising practice examples, develop training exercises and curricula. This intern needs to be a graduate of a social science discipline.
4. International standards intern
The intern will analyse and summarise international human rights standards in each of MDAC’s six human rights themes for presentation on MDAC’s website so that attorneys and lawyers can utilise the information in their work. This intern needs to be a law graduate who has taken a course on international human rights law.
Eligibility
Qualifications and experience: Interns should be graduates or in a graduate programme. MDAC do not accept undergraduates. Internships are for a minimum of eight weeks, the start and end dates being flexible.
MDAC offers its expertise and gratitude, but no funding. MDAC is a fast-paced and cosmopolitan organisation, with offices in the heart of Budapest, one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. Interns will be supervised by one of MDAC’s 15 staff members, and will take part in the full range of staff activities including attending sessions at MDAC’s summer school at the Central European University.7
How to Apply
Applicants are kindly requested to send their cv, cover letter and the completed application form (see below) to nsimon@mdac.info with ‘Summer Intern Application’ in the subject line. Only complete applications will be considered. Deadline, 15 April 2011.
