Internship announcement: OMCT Convention Against Torture Programme

OMCTCONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE PROGRAMME

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the largest internationalcoalition of nongovernmental organisations fighting against torture, summaryexecutions, forced disappearances and all other forms of cruel, inhuman anddegrading treatment, is currently seeking to recruit an INTERN for its Committee against Torture related activities.

Location: International Secretariat of the OMCT, Geneva,Switzerland.

Dates and duration: The starting date of the internship would be 9April 2018, or earlier, for a minimum of 3 months.

Application date: until 9 February 2018.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Committee against Torture will be holding its 63rd sessionfrom 23 April to 18 May 2018. The OMCT is facilitating the coordination of civilsociety activities during the session and is supporting the access of CivilSociety Organisations to the Committee against Torture in person. It is alsoexpanding the Committee’s reach through sharing experiences through live tweetsand Facebook posts, a blog, and is issuing E-bulletins on the Committee’ssessions.

The intern will work under the supervision of the Programme Director of theOMCT Convention Against Torture Programme and the activities will include:

· To assist in the coordination of Civil Society Organisations’engagement with the Committee against Torture;

· To follow the country reviews during the 63rd session of the Committee and other meetings in relation to the session;

· To assist in the drafting of the E-bulletin; 


· To carry out research on torture related issues.

PROFILE:

· Attainedor concluding a University degree in law, international relations, socialsciences or related field;

· Goodknowledge of the UN procedures and regional mechanisms for the protection of 
humanrights;

· Excellentdrafting and editing skills;

· Abilityto work under pressure to deadlines and to adapt to multidisciplinary work inthe 
environment of a multicultural team;

· Goodinterpersonal and communication skills;

· Fluencyin oral and written French and/or English. Knowledge of Spanish will beappreciated. 


This is a non- remuneratedposition.

Applications for this position should be sent (byemail only) to Carin Benninger-Budel at cbb@omct.org. Forconsideration, please send a cover letter and a CV indicating “INTERNSHIP “ asyour message Subject. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

For more information about the OMCT, please visit ourwebsite: http://www.omct.org/