MINELRES: CfA: NEWW: Legal Fellowship Program on Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health

[MINELRES moderator]

Original sender: Valeria Bodoczky <valeriabodoczky@hotmail.com>


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Please encourage especially Roma women activists living in Slovakia to
apply for this fellowship.

Thanks,

Valeria Bodoczky 
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CALL FOR FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS 

NETWORK OF EAST-WEST WOMEN
2004 LEGAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM ON REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND SEXUAL HEALTH
IN LATVIA, LITHUANIA, POLAND, SERBIA and SLOVAKIA

The Network of East-West Women (NEWW) is pleased to announce a call for
applications for the 2004 Legal Fellowship Program on Reproductive
Rights and Sexual Health. The Program offers young women lawyers from
LATVIA, LITHUANIA, POLAND, SERBIA and SLOVAKIA an opportunity to
strengthen their research, advocacy and litigation skills in the area of
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS and SEXUAL HEALTH, develop networks with other
women's rights attorneys, and design projects to advance women's rights
and policy related to reproductive rights and sexual health in their
home countries. Two Fellows will be selected for this session funded by
the Public Health Program of the Open Society Institute. Selected
Fellows will join an alumnae network of 27 Fellows working to advance
women's rights throughout Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the
Newly Independent States and the Russia Federation (CEE/NIS).

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: November 15, 2003

ELIGIBILITY:
Applications will be accepted from women lawyers from Latvia, Lithuania
Poland, Serbia and Slovakia who have completed their law studies within
the past five years. Applications showing graduation prior to 1998 will
not be considered. Candidates must: 1) have experience and a
demonstrated commitment to women's human rights advocacy; 2) be
affiliated with an established women's NGO that will support the
candidate s follow-on project if selected for the Program; and 3) be
fluent in written and spoken English. Candidates with specific
experience in reproductive rights and sexual health are particularly
encouraged to apply.

For further information see www.neww.org or email Julie Garuccio:
jgaruccio@neww.org