Happy mid-semester! We see you working hard, applying a human rights framework and humanitarian analysis to your macro exams, midterm essays and more: we appreciate you and your needed contributions! Before your off to study again:
TODAY! We have our last minute Townhall, we hope you can make it! More information below.
Mark your calendar for April 20th for our human rights flagship event - we'll share more info as the semester progresses!
While asylum seekers are required to provide significant amounts of personal information on their journey to safety, they are rarely fully informed of their data rights by UN agencies, border control, NGOs, and law enforcement staff tasked with obtaining and processing their personal information. In the US, asylum seekers at the border face a number of surveillance threats both from governments and from sophisticated commercial actors who sell data and analytics to the US government. We'll unpack the challenges faced by refugees and asylum seekers crossing these borders, emerging human rights issues in digital surveillance, as well as legal and policy responses by civil society.
Speaker: Dragana Kaurin, Research Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University
Moderator: Dr. Lara J. Nettelfield, Senior Lecturer, Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Human Rights First is hiring an Advocacy Strategist in Refugee Protection, based in D.C. Interested in applying? Learn more here!
NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs is seeking a Policy Analyst. See here for more details.
SIPA's/Executive MPA Program is seeking a Summer Course Assistant for "Global Context of Policymaking." Interested applicants are required to be a 1st year student or J-termer. Contact Michelle for more information on how to apply (email below).
UNFPA is accepting applicants for an NYC based intern on Humanitarian Financing and Operations. Applicants are accepted on a rolling basis for positions this Spring and/or Summer. For more information and to apply, send a copy of your resume/CV and a writing sample of no more than two pages to: Andrew Billo, Humanitarian Financing and Partnerships Specialist, at billo@unfpa.org.
Contact us!
Professor Elazar Bakan, Director of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration, Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights
