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The international human rights field is comprised of a broad spectrum of organizations which focus on the international protection and promotion of human rights as formulated in human rights covenants, treaties, and declarations. These governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations incorporate the international standards in social, political, legal, and cultural institutions.
Functional categories within the human rights career path include public policy formation, advocacy, legal aid and assistance, public interest law, monitoring, research and documentation, program coordination and management, education and promotion, economic and political development, as well as fundraising.
Recent Graduates have worked with:
- Catholic Relief Services
- Refugees International
- Refugee Policy Group
- South-North Development Initiative
- Eastern American Health Care Association
- Tata Energy Research Initiative
- Export Small Business Development Center
- The Center for the Study of Violence
- Foreign Policy Association
- Tibetan Government-in-Exile
- Freedom House
- United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees
- Homes for the Homeless
- United Nations Relief and Works Agency
- Human Rights Watch
- U.S. Department of State
- Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility
- International Fellowship and Reconciliation
- Women's Com. for Refugee Women and Children
- Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation
- National Endowment for Democracy
In addition to interdisciplinary skills, policy and research training, the Program assists students in obtaining internships and careers, organizes speaker series, specialist panels and applied workshops, works closely with Columbia's other faculties, centers and programs engaged in human rights work, and has links with a wide range of human rights organizations both domestically and internationally.