In most cases, this is a one semester or one year position as a visiting scholar, researcher or professor at a higher education institution in a safe location anywhere in the world.
Scholars at Risk also provides advisory services for host institutions and scholars, including those still under threat as well as those forced into exile who are struggling to restart their lives and their careers.
Online Application: https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/secure-submission/
Justice and Peace Netherlands is launching a new call for applications for at risk human rights defenders to participate in Shelter City . The deadline for applications is 14 May 2021 at 23:59 CEST (Central European Summer Time). Please be aware that special conditions apply because of the COVID-19 situation.
The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) is accepting applications from human rights defenders (HRDs) living in exile to participate in a dynamic capacity-building project called “IDREAM.” To participate, exiled HRDs must have a demonstrated track record of advocacy in human rights.
The project provides emergency grants and capacity-building to Human Rights Defenders in Turkey, as well as institutional grants for human rights organisations, promoting the development of effective advocacy strategies and networks of HRD. Target groups are all human rights defenders wether individuals or organisations.
The Initiative provides threatened researchers a fully funded 24-month fellowship at universities and research institutions in Germany. An extension is possible under a co-financing model.
Application Forms: https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/philipp-schwartz-initiative-en.html#s1
The focus of the fellowship is on helping academics to maintain and develop the skills, and the networks in the wider academic and scientific community, that they will need when they go back to their country of origin. The fellowship program very often helps the fellow’s family to join them for the duration of the fellowship as well.
Answer questionnaire to start application: https://www.cara.ngo/get-support/
* Academics at immediate risk are supported.
In solidarity with the human rights movement, Dejusticia has developed a fellowship program to support human rights defenders of the Global South who, because of their work and advocacies, have been subjected to elevated risk from repressive actions by governments and other actors. Through the fellowship program, they offer the fellows respite from the difficult contexts in which they work, time to reflect on and retool their strategies and approaches, the opportunity to receive financial s
Provides financial and administrative support: legal and medical fees; find safe refuge (safe relocation); asylum process support for journalists who are victims of reprisals because of their reporting.
Requests by individuals,
NGOs or media outlets for assistance should be sent to:
Reporters Without Borders
Assistance Desk
CS 90247
75083 Paris Cedex 02
France
For individual requests for assistance: assistance2@rsf.org or +33 1 4483 8466
Fellows spend from one semester to a full academic year (preference for candidates who can commit to a full academic year) in residence at the Law School and devote the majority of their time to research and writing on a specific human rights topic. During this time, they may also audit courses in human rights and related subjects.
Information: http://hrp.law.harvard.edu/fellowships/visiting-fellowships/
Offers an opportunity to spend five months in residence at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in Washington, D.C., in order to undertake independent research on democracy in a particular country or region. The application for the 2021-2022 period is now open. The deadline for submitting an application is October 15, 2020.