Social Legal Policy Research Intern

Social Legal Policy Research Intern
End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking in Children for sexual purposes (ECPAT)
ECPAT is a global network of organisations and individuals working together to eliminate child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of child for sexual purposes.

Closing date: 15 Nov 2010
Location: Thailand - Bangkok

ECPAT International
Job Description

Position: Social Legal Policy Research Intern
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: Six Months

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, while expected to carry out the duties assigned to them under the responsibility of the designated manager.

Primary Tasks

1. Research, collect and analyse information on the national social welfare & protection systems and procedures related to prevention, protection, and rehabilitation of children impacted by commercial sexual exploitation in different countries/jurisdictions. This includes identifying amendments and changes, identifying best practices, researching case law, drafting a variety of specialized sections for country monitoring reports published by ECPAT International.
2. Special thematic sections of the Global Monitoring of the Agenda for Action for new country reports with focus on the analysis of:
- The social protection systems;
- The special child rights mechanisms at national level;
- The information & communication legal framework as relevant to child protection from CSEC.
3. Research, collect and analyse information on social policies and national laws and procedures related to the above areas of child protection.
4. Analyze relevant data, information and reports, and prepare briefs with annotated bibliography.
5. Research information on national level child rights mechanisms for selected countries.
6. As requested, review other Human Rights & technical publications and materials.
7. Support the translation of relevant articles.
8. Other tasks as assigned.
9. On an informal and as-needed basis, assist with other ECPAT regional and thematic programmatic tasks.

Qualifications

Essential

- Degree in Law or Masters in Social Sciences with a focus in international law and/or Bachelors in these fields with demonstrated analytical research writing.
- Strong research and writing skills as well as knowledge of conducting searches, annotation, citation, etc.
- 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.

Desirable

- Knowledge of Human Rights & Child Rights, and laws & policies related 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.
How to apply
Application Deadline: open until position is filled
To apply, please e-mail your CV and cover letter with “Social Legal Policy Research Intern” 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.