CBA Young Professionals International Program

 

Internship

 

website:

http://www.cba.org/CBA/IDP/YIIP/

salary:

Stipend

Education:

Law school graduates

Deadline:

time:

location:

abroad

 
The CBA is administering a Young Professionals International Internship Program, which is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) as part of the Government of Canada's Youth Employment Strategy (YES). Through this program, young lawyers are placed in eight-month internships (they are overseas for between six and seven of the eight months) to work with human rights legal organizations on issues such as women's rights, labour rights, constitutional rights, children's rights and indigenous people's rights, in Latin America and the Caribbean, Southern and Central Africa and South East Asia. 

The program is designed to achieve two objectives:
  • Firstly, it provides human rights legal organizations abroad with young lawyers who have the expertise to make a professional contribution to their work.
  • Secondly, it gives young lawyers, at the threshold of their careers, international experience to help them obtain employment in the field of law and international human rights legal work.

 

e-mail: 

Al Cook at alc@cba.org