Internship - Human Rights

vor 4 Wochen

Genf GE, Schweiz United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Vollzeit

**LOCATION**:
Geneva, SWITZERLAND

**TYPE OF CONTRACT**:
Internship

**STARTING DATE**:
23-Sep-2024

**APPLICATION DEADLINE**:
06-Sep-24 (Midnight New York, USA)

**POST LEVEL**:
Intern

**DURATION OF INITIAL CONTRACT**:
6 months

**TIME LEFT**:
15d 7h 53m

**LANGUAGES REQUIRED**:
English

**EXPECTED DURATION OF ASSIGNMENT**:
6 months

**Background**:
**UNDP** works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and exclusion, and build resilience so countries can sustain progress. As the UN’s development agency, UNDP plays a critical role in helping countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

The **UNDP Crisis Bureau** aims to ensure that the Organization’s development efforts incorporate necessary elements of crisis prevention and timely recovery support. This requires a focus on skills and capacities in national institutions and communities - in order that risks of disasters and violent conflict are minimized and a foundation for sustainable development secured. The overall goal of the **UNDP Office in Geneva** is to support the active and strategic engagement of Crisis Bureau, on behalf of UNDP, with Geneva-based UN and other external humanitarian, human rights and development partners whose work is vital for the successful implementation of UNDP’s crisis prevention and recovery mandate.

In UNDP’s Crisis Bureau, **the Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights Team** leads UNDP’s global practice in this field and provides policy advice and programmatic support to UNDP Regional Hubs and Country Offices in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of human rights, rule of law, justice and security policy and programmes.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
The internship will be with the Rule of Law, Human Rights and Security Team. Under the overall supervision and guidance of the Policy Specialist in Geneva, and in collaboration with team members in the Geneva and New York and Regional Bureaux, **the human rights intern is expected to support with **the follow up of formal and informal debates within the framework of the Human Rights Council with the objective to produce targeted and general information in reference to human rights and ensure its timely communication to relevant Country Offices, Regional hubs and Bureaus and thematic units in Headquarters. Moreover, the intern will provide overall support to the Human Rights team and contribute to UNDP’s work and initiatives on human rights at the global and corporate level in line with the duties described below.**

The thematic areas of interest include, but are not necessarily restricted to the following:

- Human Rights Council
- Human Rights mechanisms
- The right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment
- Rights-based approach to climate change
- Human rights and digitization
- Rights-based approach to sustainable development programming
- National human rights institutions
- Human Rights Defenders
- UNDP’s strategy for Human Rights and sustainable development

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Provide overall support to the Human Rights Team, including participating in internal and external events and meetings, and following up on action points;
- Support the Team with UNDP’s engagement in the Human Rights Council, including producing a draft summary and analysis of the Human Rights Council Sessions and present the main findings in the form of an internal report;
- Follow the Universal Periodic Review and other relevant human rights mechanisms and contribute to discussions and to the Human Rights Team’s work in supporting Regional Hubs and Country Offices;
- Prepare drafts of relevant background documents for meetings (terms of reference, concept notes, briefings, reports, discussion papers, as relevant);
- Support the organization of events geared towards sustaining the UNDP community of practice bringing together practitioners from UNDP’s Country Offices, regional and HQ offices;
- Help facilitate online practitioner engagements such as online dialogues, webinars, etc.;
- Support reviewing internal guidance and policy papers;
- Regularly update UNDP’s internal Human Rights online platform with relevant reports and other materials;
- Support the team with initiatives on human rights and digitalization, and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment;
- Support the communication efforts of the team on social media and online content; and
- Carry out all other related tasks assigned as agreed.

No travel is envisaged for this internship. The selected intern will be required to use his/her own laptops during the internship.

**Competencies**:

- Self-starter, organized, detail oriented;
- Able to balance multiple responsibilities;
- A demonstrated ability to synthesize information from multiple sources and produce concise content;
- Demonstrate/safeguard ethics and integrity;
- Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment;
- Ability to take init

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