Call for Applications for the 2020 Resilience Fellowship
Applications for the 2020 Resilience Fellowship are now open, and the UN Special Rapporteurs present new reports.
The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime is calling for applications for its 2020 Resilience Fellowship that offers support and opportunities to a cohort of individuals from around the world.
The fellowship is part of the Resilience Fund, a grant mechanism funded by the Government of Norway providing grants to civil society and communities working to counter the impacts of criminal governance and violence across the world. For 2020, the theme of the Resilience Fellowship is: “Disappearances Related to Organized Crime”. Within this framework Fellows will be asked to combine their various perspectives in the development of collaborative outputs, as well as to represent the Fund as “Resilience Fund Ambassadors,” who will raise awareness of the theme, issues, and the importance of civil society in countering organized crime.
The selected candidates will receive US$15,000, mentoring and networking opportunities:
Sponsorship: Providing financial support so that Resilience Fellows will have the time and resources for their individual work and a collaborative project during the fellowship year. Grants of USD $15 000 per Fellow will be awarded for one year.
Networking: Offering mentorship opportunities with experts from GI-TOC, as well as bringing Resilience Fellows together via a residency retreat to begin the collaborative project to be undertaken during their fellowship year.
Dissemination: Creating a platform for Resilience Fellows to publicly share their work and ideas which will widen public discourse, deepen engagement with society, and invite the support and participation from the general public and, ultimately, policymakers.
In order to apply, interested candidates can complete the application online before November 15. For the year 2020, a total of 10 Fellows will be selected. They can represent the fields of journalism and the media, activism; advocacy and community mobilization; the creative arts, including artists, writers, filmmakers and others; community leaders, religious, cultural or youth leaders; academics, researchers, policymakers and scholars. Participants should ideally work closely within communities severely affected by disappearances related to organized crime, or have strong ties within them, and should have ongoing or established projects or engagement.
Here’s a round-up of other noteworthy updates and news:
UN Special Rapporteurs presented reports on human trafficking, internal displacement and modern slavery last week. The Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, said the human rights of persons subjected to trafficking must be at the center of all efforts to prevent and combat the practice. She also praised the legislation on transparency passed by a few states, but urged that companies need to create grievance mechanisms that enable workers to report trafficking or severe exploitation.
In a similar vein, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, said at least 17 million children are estimated to have been displaced by conflict and violence. The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, said that despite its legal abolition worldwide, slavery exists in all regions. The covert nature of child slavery, in particular, means that there is a lack of consistent empirical data on it.
And a new scoping study explores the programmes and initiatives of local faith actors (which can include formal and informal religious leaders, worship communities, faith networks, and local and national faith-based organisations) in their response to modern slavery and human trafficking in the Global South.
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