🇹🇳 Internship in Tunisia ⚖️ Human Rights Support at the UN Human Rights Office 📋

If you are passionate about human rights and fluent in Arabic and French, this OHCHR internship in Tunis offers meaningful experience within the United Nations. Supporting the OHCHR Country Office in Tunisia, you will contribute to the protection of human rights and to the work of the office's human rights officers.

About the Role

The intern supports the OHCHR Country Office in Tunisia in fulfilling its mission: to work for the protection of all human rights for all people, and to assist those responsible for upholding such rights in ensuring they are implemented. Daily responsibilities depend on your background, and duties may include:

📚 Reviewing relevant information and documents to acquire a basic understanding of the office's mandate, strategic policies, and programmes, and assisting the Human Rights Officers in their work

⚖️ Assisting in analysing information related to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), treaty bodies, and special procedures, and their follow-up

🤝 Lending support to technical cooperation activities conducted by the Human Rights Officers

🎪 Assisting in organising meetings, seminars, and official missions, and performing other duties as requested

Who Can Apply

🎓 Enrolled in or having completed a graduate programme, or in the final academic year of a first university degree, ideally in international relations, international human rights law, political science, or a related field

🗣️ Fluency in Arabic and French is required; knowledge of English is desirable