Summer 2013 WRP Legal Internship-Women’s Rights Project
American Civil Liberties Union —
New 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.