Duration: Six Months
Reports to: Research and Programmes Advisor
Reports to: Research and Programmes Advisor
Overall Purpose of the Internship
The ECPAT International internship programme is designed to provide an opportunity to the eligible candidates to contribute to and learn about child protection issues, particularly children’s rights to live free of commercial sexual exploitation. Interns are eligible to participate in the ECPAT International Secretariat activities. Interns are expected to carry out the duties assigned to them under the responsibility of the designated supervisor(s).
Primary Tasks
- Research, collect and analyse information on national laws and legal procedures related to sexual offences against children in different countries/jurisdictions. This includes identifying amendments and changes, identifying best practices, researching case law, drafting a variety of reports and updating existing ones.
- To update the Protection sections of the Global Monitoring of the Agenda for Action country reports and to develop draft protection sections for new country reports, by collecting and reviewing national legislation on child prostitution, child pornography, child trafficking and child sex tourism;
- Research, collect and analyse information on national laws and legal procedures related CSEC.
- Analyze UPR, CRC and OP reports to determine trends in reporting on different manifestations of CSEC relative to other rights violations to recommend links with ECPAT OP reporting
- Develop and review legal sections of Agenda for Action reports
- Research information on national level child rights mechanisms for selected countries
- Establish the annual calendar for country reporting to child rights instruments including Special Rapporteur and undertake relevant data collection
- Participate in development of initiative to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the CRC and keep ECPAT current on related global initiatives
- As requested, review other ECPAT publications and materials to strengthen texts related to legal framework and law enforcement;
- Support the translation of relevant legal framework articles from the Rio Declaration and Action Plan to Prevent and Stop the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescent (the outcome document of the World Congress III against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents; http://www.ecpat.net/WorldCongressIII/index.php ) and other Congress related materials into ECPAT program documents and plans;
- To assist EPAT International with translation and proofreading of publications and other documents if intern’s language skills are suitable;
- Other tasks as assigned
- On an informal and as-needed basis, assist with other ECPAT regional and thematic programmatic tasks.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Law with a focus in international law and/or human rights or equivalent
- Strong research and writing skills.
- Ability to synthesize large amounts of information into concise formats.
- Experience in working with human rights and social development issues specifically as these relate to the rights of children.
- Exposure to children’s rights or other social issues.
- Good knowledge of computer applications.
- Excellent Spanish necessary for this position.
Desirable
- Knowledge of international legal standards relating to the commercial sexual exploitation of children
- Ability to communicate effectively in major languages used by members of the ECPAT network e.g. Spanish and/or French.
- Previous exposure to children’s rights or other social issues.
Internship Conditions
A modest stipend will be made available to the interns who are not sponsored by other organizations or institutions. Due to limited resources all costs related to the internship, i.e. travel, passport, visa or living in Bangkok, are to borne by the intern or his/her sponsoring institution or organisation.
Application Deadline: Position starts Mid November 2012
To apply, please e-mail your CV and cover letter with “Spanish Speaking Intern for Legal Programme” in the subject line to vacancy@ecpat.net. No phone calls please. For more information on interning with ECPAT International please visit:http://www.ecpat.net/EI/GetInvolve_internship.asp
ECPAT International would like to thank all applicants for their expressed interest to support our work. We regret to inform that due to the large number of applications we receive and our limited resources, only short listed candidates will be contacted. We would thus like to advise that applicants, who have not heard from ECPAT International within 30 days of the advertised application deadline, may assume that their application has not been successful. We wish our applicants all the best in their career pursuits.
How to apply:
To apply, please e-mail your CV and cover letter with “Spanish Speaking Intern for Legal Programme” in the subject line to vacancy@ecpat.net. No phone calls please. For more information on interning with ECPAT International please visit:http://www.ecpat.net/EI/GetInvolve_internship.asp
