About
The Human Rights Center at the UC Berkeley School of Law works with University of California campuses to provide fellowships for students wishing to contribute their energy and expertise to human rights organizations worldwide. The Human Rights Center Fellowships provide opportunities for meaningful human rights work domestically and internationally. Since it was founded in 1994, the program has sent over 375 fellows to work with organizations in some 81 countries and territories. Student fellows come from a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, journalism, law, environmental science, public policy, public health, and medicine. Their portfolio of projects includes using open source investigation to verify chemical weapons attacks as international war crimes, exposing stark educational inequities faced by foster youth in California, mentoring refugee filmmakers in the IDP camps of Kenya, and drafting legal briefs on behalf of political asylum seekers in the United States, among many others. Info sessions will be held prior to the start of the 2023 fellowship cycle.
