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What is SAHRDC?
The South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC) is a network of individuals across the region. It seeks to investigate, document and disseminate information about human rights treaties and conventions, human rights education, refugees, media freedom, prison reforms, political imprisonment, torture, summary executions, disappearances and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. SAHRDC has Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
The office of SAHRDC is based in New Delhi. It is a small office with little resources. There are seven people working regularly besides a hard core of a dozen volunteers. The core volunteers help us on our requests on a specific issue (i.e., lawyers, medical practitioners, journalists, computer programmers and other resource persons). Besides Indian volunteers, we have an internship programme, which attracts students and scholars from universities in India and abroad.
Internship programme:
The SAHRDC has a long-standing internship programme. It accepts interns from all over the world, who have a serious human rights commitment. Intending interns should be prepared and capable of hard and diligent research work. SAHRDC welcomes students, mid-term career professionals and lawyers looking for a sabbatical with good analytical and research aptitude.
At any given point, SAHRDC has a number of ongoing projects. We welcome interns willing to help in these projects. Most of these projects entail copious research work. Some of them require travel within Asia. Interns are able to assume a significant amount of responsibility. In the past, students from Yale Law School, Columbia University, Harvard University, Fordham, University of Virginia, University of Minnesota, New York Law School and Chicago Law School from the United States have interned with SAHRDC.
SAHRDC has also had interns from the London School of Economics, Essex University and the University of London from the United Kingdom. Indian interns have being from the National Law School University of India, Bangalore, The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, The Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai, University of Delhi and Jawahar Lal Nehru University.
All of them have seen their own projects through, from visiting a refugee camp or researching at the Indian Law Institute or doing field visits to other Asian countries to writing most of the final reports themselves.
You should note that SAHRDC does not have paid positions available for interns.
To complete your application for an internship, please send us a detailed CV and a writing sample. The writing sample could be a term paper of between 10 and 15 pages.
Do not hesitate to contact us again should you require any further information or clarification.
