[Reader-list] [Announcements] 4 months course at Columbia: Human Rights and the Global Economy [Fwd]

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HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES PROGRAM AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 
  
I am delighted to announce that the application for the 2005 
session of the annual Human Rights Advocates Program at Columbia 
University is now available.  I would like to take this 
opportunity to ask you to disseminate this information and 
application to human rights advocates based in developing 
countries as well as grassroots activists in the  
United States working on human rights problems that result from 
or are part of the global economic system. 
  
In 2004, the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia 
University launched a new initiative to advance human rights 
thinking and activism with respect to the global economy.  The 
program's current focus on Human Rights Advocacy and the Global 
Economy builds on the Center's highly successful Human Rights 
Advocates Program, featuring a program of advocacy, skill-
building, and scholarship through a four-month intensive 
training program in New York City. 
 
  
Columbia University's Human Rights Advocates Program is designed 
to prepare proven human rights leaders from poor countries and 
communities in the US to participate in national and 
international policy debates on economic globalization by 
building their skills, knowledge, and contacts.  An equally 
important part of the program is to promote debate and dialogue 
on the global economy between the grassroots leaders and the 
faculty and students at Columbia University, and in the NGO, 
policy-making and corporate communities.
 
  
The current focus of the Human Rights Advocates Program seeks to 
cover key impacts of the global economy, particularly impacts on 
the following issue areas:
 
*Labor rights 
*Migration 
*Health 
*Environmental justice 
*Corporate social responsibility, including sectoral issues such 
as human rights in the extractive industries or agriculture.
 
  
Activists working on the above areas from a gender perspective 
are encouraged to apply. 
  
The Program is designed for lawyers, journalists, teachers, 
community organizers, and other human rights activists working 
with non-governmental organizations who work on human rights 
problems that result from or are part of the global economic 
system. 
 
  
Participants are selected on the basis of their previous work 
experience on human rights and the global economy, commitment to 
the human rights field, and demonstrated ability to complete 
graduate level studies.  Full-time students or government 
officials will not be considered.  Advocates must secure 
institutional endorsement from their organizations 
 
for their participation in the program and must commit to 
returning to that organization upon completion of the Program.  
Activists must also be originating from and residing in either a 
developing country or the United States.  Fluency in English is 
required.
 
  
This extremely competitive program will admit up to ten 
applicants.  The program will take place from late August to the 
middle of December 2005. 
 
  
Enclosed please find an overview of the program and the 2005 
application form.  The completed application is due by March 21, 
2005.  Please note that late or incomplete applications will not 
be accepted.
 
  
For further information or to download additional copies of the 
application, please refer to our website at 
<http://www.columbia.edu/cu/humanrights/training/adv/hradv_pgm.ht
m>. 
  
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Location: NY
Deadline: March 2005
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/humanrights/training/adv/hradv_pgm.htm
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