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Position Available: Researcher on Women's Human Rights and religion
 
Human Rights Watch
Attn: Search Committee (WRD Researcher on Women's Human Rights and
Religion) 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY 10118-3299 USA     [log in to unmask]

F/T Position Available:
Researcher on Women's Human Rights and Religion Women's Rights Division
 
Apply Immediately
 
Human Rights Watch is seeking highly-qualified applicants for its
newly-created position of Researcher on Women's Human Rights and
Religion.
 
Description:
 
The Researcher in this newly-created position for Human Rights Watch's
Women's Rights Division will be responsible for developing and
implementing a research and advocacy agenda focusing on how
interpretations of religion (and religious law, including but not
limited to sharia) affect women's human rights. A primary objective of
the research and advocacy will be to curb violations through, among
other things, conducting fact-finding missions; writing and publicizing
reports, briefing papers, letters, press releases, op-eds, and
submissions to international bodies based on the findings; developing
and implementing  local, regional, and international strategies to
change abusive laws,  policies, and practices; presenting human rights
concerns to government officials, religious leaders, inter-governmental
agencies, and the press; and working closely with colleague NGOs to
ensure that HRW's work complements and enhances their own work.
The Researcher's responsibilities will also include monitoring
legislative and/or policy developments related to the ways in which
religious laws are interpreted and/or applied in violation of women's
human rights globally and liaising with human rights, women's,
religious, and other organizations in the countries she or he will
cover.
 
Qualifications:
 
The ideal candidate will have religious expertise and no less than five
years of directly-related post-graduate experience working on exposing
and curbing the ways that religions have been used to undermine and
circumscribe women's enjoyment and exercise of their full human rights,
both at a national and a regional level. An advanced (graduate) degree
in  international relations, religious studies, theology, journalism,
law, or social sciences is required, as are strong field research and
documentation skills. Fluency in both written and spoken Arabic and
English, as well as strong familiarity with Islam, sharia and
international human rights law, is required.
 
The researcher must be able to identify, research, analyze and
effectively communicate important human rights developments in the area
of specialty in a timely and sophisticated fashion, setting priorities
based on  perceptive analysis of critical emerging issues that are
important and susceptible to influence. The researcher must be an agile
and productive writer and dynamic speaker with accurate, analytically
sophisticated, and persuasive oral and written communications skills. He
or she must be able to think strategically about the global and local
media environments and how to use the press and electronic media to
further advocacy goals, maintaining regular contact with key local,
national and international contacts relevant to the researcher's issues.
He or she must be able to develop and implement realistic and effective
local and international  advocacy strategies and tactics in order to
identify and seize advocacy opportunities and thus insert HRW's position
into public debate. 
Creativity, initiative, perseverance, and flexibility are required while
maintaining HRW's high methodological standards.
 
He or she must be able to travel domestically and overseas for three or
more weeks at a time, several times a year. The researcher may be based
in one of HRW's global offices or in another location, but in any case
must be prepared to spend significant periods of time in HRW's New York
headquarters, particularly in the first year of employment for purposes
of orientation, integration into the organization, and training, and
thereafter for regular consultation.
 
Salary and Benefits:
> 
> Human Rights Watch seeks exceptional candidates and offers competitive

> compensation and generous
employer-paid benefits. HRW will pay reasonable relocation expenses and
will assist employees in obtaining the necessary work authorization for
the location where he or she will be based.
 
PLEASE APPLY IMMEDIATELY by emailing in a single
submission: a letter of interest describing your experience, your
resume, names or letters of reference, and a brief writing sample
(unedited by
others) to [log in to unmask] Please use "Application for WRD Researcher on
Women's Human Rights and Religion"
as the subject of your email. Only complete applications will be
reviewed. It is preferred that all materials be submitted via email. If
emailing is not possible, send materials (please do not split a
submission between email and regular post) to:
 
Human Rights Watch
Attn: Search Committee (WRD Researcher on Women's Human Rights and
Religion) 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor New York, NY 10118-3299 USA
 
Human Rights Watch is an equal opportunity employer that does not
discriminate in its hiring practices and, in order to build the
strongest possible workforce, actively seeks a diverse applicant pool.
 
***
 
Human Rights Watch ("HRW") is an international human rights monitoring
and advocacy organization known for its in-depth investigations, its
incisive and timely reporting, its innovative and high-profile advocacy
campaigns, and its success in changing the human rights-related policies
and practices of influential governments and international institutions.
 
The Women's Rights Division ("WRD") of Human Rights Watch was
established in 1990 to monitor state-sponsored or state-tolerated
violence and sex discrimination against women in all regions of the
world. Much of its work consists of gathering detailed information on
abuses against women and  publishing reports that are as reliable,
comprehensive and timely as possible, so as to effect change in
repressive practices and improve respect for women's rights throughout
the world. The work of the WRD seeks to expand the scope of human rights
work to address abuses against women that traditionally have been
overlooked or misunderstood, as well as achieve greater accountability
for violations of women's human rights.

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