• increase the intern's understanding of current human rights issues at the international level ‎and give them an insight into the work of the United Nations and OHCHR in particular; and  
• provide OHCHR and the United Nations Human Rights mechanisms with the assistance and ‎contribution of outstanding young students or graduates.‎

The relationship between the Organization and the intern is one of mutual benefit. Interns ‎are assigned to an organizational unit of OHCHR according to the needs of the Office and their ‎own areas of interest. They are involved, inter alia, in: researching human rights issues, ‎drafting analytical papers and reports, providing substantive and technical servicing of ‎meetings, backstopping fact-finding and technical cooperation activities as well as field ‎operations and supporting other OHCHR activities, depending on the exigencies of the Office. ‎As part of the internship programme, OHCHR endeavors to brief interns through a series of ‎information sessions on human rights issues conducted by staff of the Office.‎

Applicants to the United Nations internship programme must at the time of application meet ‎one of the following requirements:‎

• Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university   degree or equivalent, or ‎higher); 
• Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum ‎Bachelor’s level or equivalent);  
• Have graduated with a university degree (as defined in 3.1 (a) and (b) above) and, if ‎selected, must commence the internship within a one-year period of graduation, as provided ‎for in section 11.4 of the present instruction.‎

Participants in the internship programme are selected from graduate students and holders of ‎graduate level degrees in disciplines related to the work of the United Nations, e.g. ‎International Law, Political Science, History, Social Sciences. Preference will be given to those, ‎within these disciplines, who have specialized in human rights issues. Typically, interns do not ‎have previous working experience of this nature. Applicants must be sponsored by an academic ‎institution and must have a good command of at least two of the six official languages of the ‎United Nations, i.e. English.‎

Application deadline: 31 October, 2016‎
For more information, visit: ‎http://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/Pages/InternshipProgramme.aspx