Public Interest Articling Fellow - Ottawa, Canada - Amnesty International Canada

Amnesty International Canada
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Hours:
Full-time (37.5 hours/week)


Duration: 10 months Articling Term beginning June or August 2024


Location:
Ottawa - Hybrid


Salary:
$62,000 plus benefits for the articling term


Deadline:
Applications are accepted until 5pm (eastern time) Friday, June 16th 2023


The
Public Interest Articling Fellow will join Amnesty International Canadian Section English Speaking (AICSES) to support Amnesty International Canada's international human rights work, legal advocacy, and litigation files.

The articling position has been made available thanks to The Law Foundation of Ontario's Public Interest Articling Fellowship and it fulfills the Law Society of Ontario's experiential training requirement for the lawyer licensing process.


Reporting to the Manager of Human Rights Law, Campaigns and Advocacy who serves as the Articling Principal, the articling fellow will collaborate with colleagues from various Amnesty sections and Regional Office for the Americas, as well as cross-functional teams at AICSES.

Articling students help to establish and maintain partnerships with key stakeholders, including external partners, _pro bono_ counsel working with Amnesty, rights holders, and historically marginalized communities.

The selected articling student will work closely with the Human Rights Law and Policy Campaigner to support ongoing litigation, contribute to legal advocacy before UN Treaty bodies, assist with individual casework and the preparation of risk letters in immigration and refugee protection cases in Canada.

The articling student's work may also relate to Canada's participation before Canada's parliamentary committees, submissions or letters to UN treaty-based and Charter-based bodies, and legal interventions in cases before Canadian courts, including lower courts and courts of appeal, the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada.


WHAT YOU'LL DO

Assist with strategic litigation:


  • Support Amnesty's litigation files along with the Human Rights Law and Policy Campaigner and the Manager of Human Rights, Law, Campaigns, and Advocacy. This may include court interventions, helping to liaise with Amnesty's _pro bono_ counsel and Amnesty's International Secretariat in preparing litigation, and supporting the research and drafting of legal documents.
  • Attend legal interventions, when required.
  • Undertake individual casework to assist rightsholders such as refugee claimants, Canadians detained abroad, and others who fall within Amnesty's mandate.
  • Collaborate as needed with Amnesty's relevant International Secretariat teams on strategic litigation in Canada.

Support Policy, Research, Advocacy, and Government Engagement:

  • Collaborate to regular monitoring and analysis of relevant information from Amnesty's International Secretariat, the media, relevant Canadian networks and partners, and governments and other official documents, to help inform human rights campaigning strategies.
  • Draft advocacy letters and/or statements.
  • Support government engagement as needed, in collaboration with the Policy, Research and Advocacy team and Secretary Campaigns team, participate in meetings with representatives of federal, provincial, and territorial governments, help organize letter writing campaigns targeting government officials, and develop evidenceinformed recommendations with rightsholders.
  • Help track human rights violations in Canada, including through the review of parliamentary debates, government statements, media articles and submissions to United Nations bodies.
  • Contribute to drafting submissions for UN international human rights treaty bodies and other UN human rights mechanisms.

Engaging the base and mobilizing the public:

  • In collaboration with the mobilization team, you will co-create the development of campaign strategies to mobilize AICSES' membership and members of the public on priority issues.
  • Help identify and develop action opportunities and content for a variety of audiences and methods of engagement, including advising and providing content for the section's website or social media channels.
  • With the mobilization and communications teams, help prepare public materials, including social media content, fact sheets, infographics, open letters, media articles, blog posts on key litigation and policies.
  • Engage with volunteer structures on Amnesty's core campaigns.
  • Contribute to research and writing content for Amnesty's publications, including the annual Human Rights Agenda for Canada.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IN AN ARTICLING CANDIDATE

Required Qualifications:


  • Knowledge, training, or experience in intersectionality, antiracism, antioppression, antiBlack racism, antidiscrimination, and decolonizing practices is an added advantage.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, ability to collaborate and think strategically.
  • Ability to
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