Description

The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global human rights organization working to ensure that reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights worldwide. With offices in New York City, and Washington, D.C.; Nairobi, Kenya; Bogota, Colombia; and Geneva, Switzerland, the Center is a non-profit, non-partisan organization changing law and policy throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States. Our 270+ diverse professionals are committed to advancing the Center’s human rights mission through game-changing litigation, legal policy, and advocacy work. This has powered the Center’s exceptional growth to an operating budget of over $60 million and won the respect of law firms in countries around the world. Our global pro bono network includes over 2,000 lawyers across 6 continents, 64 countries, and 130 law firms. Last year, law firms contributed over $30 million USD in pro bono legal services. The Center’s Strategic Plan sets a high mark for impact: By 2030, half of the world’s population will be living under stronger protections for reproductive rights than they were in 2020. The Center has a record of success to back up this ambitious goal. Since our founding in 1992, the Center has transformed how reproductive rights are understood and applied by courts, governments, and human rights bodies worldwide on issues including maternal health, abortion, assisted reproduction, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights. We have won groundbreaking cases before national courts, U.N. Committees, and regional human rights bodies. The Center has also led development of historic, proactive legislation advancing robust protections for reproductive rights. It has built the legal capacity of women’s rights advocates in more than 65 countries and counting. To learn more about the Center, please go to www.reproductiverights.org  

Intern, Africa Program Operations

Reporting to the Manager, Program Operations, Africa, the incumbent will support the day-to-day operations work for the Africa Program. The incumbent will primarily work within the Africa program team and will be expected to collaborate with other units as needed. 

The Center’s Africa Program is looking for an enthusiastic, resourceful, and highly organized intern with a commitment to reproductive rights issues to engage in a variety of administrative tasks and projects. This internship will provide experience in many aspects of the Center as well as insight into the inner working of progrm operations. 

Legal Interns (2 Vacancies)

Internship Summary: 

The Center’s Africa program seeks enthusiastic, resourceful, and diligent interns committed to reproductive rights to learn, participate in and assist in implementing its ongoing projects. Primarily, the internship is meant to provide the successful candidates with experience to use legal advocacy and international human rights law to advance reproductive rights.