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Summer 2013 WRP Legal Internship-Women’s Rights Project

American Civil Liberties UnionNew York, NY
SUMMER 2013 LEGAL INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY NOTICE TO LAW STUDENTS American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Womens Rights Project, NY The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU), founded in 1920, is a nationwide, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with more than 500,000 members, and is dedicated to the principles of liberty and equality embodied in the U.S. Constitution. The Womens Rights Project of the ACLUs National Office in New York City seeks legal interns for the summer of 2013. OVERVIEW The Womens Rights Project is part of the ACLUs Center for Liberty, which is dedicated to the principle that we are all entitled to determine the course of our lives based on who we are and what we believe free from unreasonable government constraint and baseless stereotypes. The Center for Liberty encompasses the ACLUs work on womens rights, reproductive freedom, LGBT rights, and freedom of religion and belief. Founded in 1972 by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Womens Rights Project (WRP) has been a leader in the legal battles to ensure womens full equality in American society. WRP is dedicated to the advancement of the rights and interests of women to lead lives of dignity free from violence and discrimination, including discrimination based on gender stereotypes. WRP focuses on womens rights in the following priority areas: education, violence against women and employment. Cutting across these core priorities, WRP seeks to bring an international human rights framework to its litigation and advocacy. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, WRP pushes for change and systemic reform in those institutions that perpetuate discrimination against women. The Womens Rights Project has overall responsibility for implementing ACLU policy in the area of gender discrimination. WRP conducts direct litigation, files amicus curiae briefs, provides support for ACLU affiliate litigation, serves as a resource for ACLU legislative work on womens rights and seeks to advance ACLU policy goals through public education, organizing and coalition advocacy. WRP has been an active participant in virtually all of the major gender discrimination litigation in the Supreme Court, in Congressional efforts to promote gender equality, and in significant communications and public education efforts on behalf of women and girls.

RFP Spring 2013 Legal Internship-Reproductive Freedom Project

American Civil Liberties UnionNew York, NY
OVERVIEW The mission of the ACLUs Reproductive Freedom Project (RFP) is to secure a world that respects and supports everyones right to form intimate relationships and to decide whether and when to have a child. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, The Project strives to ensure that the freedoms and opportunities enjoyed by some become the freedoms and opportunities enjoyed by all. In particular, the Project works to ensure access to abortion services, comprehensive sex education, and affordable contraception, and to protect the rights of marginalized women to continue their pregnancies. The ACLU is particularly committed to ensuring that individuals reproductive rights are not compromised because of their race, youth, or economic status, and believes that reproductive rights work must be informed by broader racial and social justice considerations. For more than three decades, RFP has participated in nearly every critical reproductive rights case before the Supreme Court and in significant cases in federal and state courts too numerous to count, including challenges to intrusive counseling laws; laws that defund organizations because they provide or refer for abortion; bans on abortion procedures; laws that restrict teens access to abortion; and restrictions on insurance coverage of abortion. The ACLU is also the nations leading expert on the intersection between reproductive rights and the religion and free speech clauses of the First Amendment. The Reproductive Freedom Project is part of the ACLUs Center for Liberty, which is dedicated to the principle that we are all entitled to determine the course of our lives based on who we are and what we believe, free from unreasonable government constraint and baseless stereotypes. The Center for Liberty encompasses the ACLUs work on reproductive rights, womens rights, LGBT issues, and freedom of religion and belief. The Reproductive Freedom Project is unique among reproductive rights organizations in that it works with the ACLUs nationwide network of affiliates and across the organization with attorneys who specialize in other civil liberties areas, including free speech, race and poverty issues, and lesbian and gay rights. INTERNSHIP OVERVIEW The Spring 2013 Legal Internship offers interns the opportunity to work on all aspects of litigation. The Internship requires a 10-12 week commitment and is part-time, with weekly hours that are negotiable. Interns are highly encouraged to seek outside funding, as the internship is unpaid. Arrangements can be made with the interns school for work/study or course credit.

Legal and Compliance Internship

New York HabitatNew York, NY
Legal and Compliance Internship About New York Habitat: New York Habitat ( http://www.nyhabitat.com ), is a successful recognized International Real Estate Agency We specialize in the Furnished Rental, Bed & Breakfast and Vacation Rental markets in New York, Paris, London and the South of France. About your Internship at New York Habitat: New York Habitat is looking for a dedicated person & team player to join our legal and compliance team. Our main goal is to share our expertise with motivated individuals and current students interested in learning more about the real estate industry, specifically the rental market in NYC. During this internship, you will contribute your ideas& talents toward handling new challenges regarding renting furnished rentals, Bed & Breakfast, and Vacation Rentals. You will benefit from the experience of working in an International environment and will be exposed to different languages (Spanish, English, Italian and French). You will develop your communication skills and will become more efficient in your work, organization, and time management. If this position interests you, please send a cover letter and resume for immediate consideration at resume@nyhabitat.com. In your cover letter, please indicate your start date and length of time you are willing to commit to the internship. Check it out: To learn more about New York Habitat and the services we offer, take a look at our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/newyorkhabitat And to stay connected and to receive our latest news, follow us on T