{"id":1585,"date":"2016-06-08T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T23:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2016-06-08T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T23:35:09","slug":"justice-undergraduate-student-secures-internship-at-the-australian-human-rights-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2016\/06\/08\/justice-undergraduate-student-secures-internship-at-the-australian-human-rights-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Undergraduate Student Secures Internship at the Australian Human Rights Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/06\/Lauren-Wilkins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1586 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/06\/Lauren-Wilkins-e1465342186108-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"Explore Uni Gardens Point Campus\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/06\/Lauren-Wilkins-e1465342186108-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/06\/Lauren-Wilkins-e1465342186108-768x720.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/06\/Lauren-Wilkins-e1465342186108-1024x961.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2016\/06\/Lauren-Wilkins-e1465342186108-320x300.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;background: white\">Justice undergraduate student, Lauren Wilkins, has recently been successful in securing an internship at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanrights.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Human Rights Commission<\/a>.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Australian Human Rights Commission&#8217;s\u00a0internship placements are open to students studying across a range of disciplines, with highest priority\u00a0given to those studying law, social policy, research and social justice areas. The intent of the Commission\u2019s internship program is to provide a practical understanding of human rights promotion and protection and create a broad appreciation of the work of the Commission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Lauren explains what her role as an intern with the Commission will involve:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';color: black\">\u00a0&#8220;During my time as an intern at the Australian Human Rights Commission, I will work with the Human Rights Scrutiny team. In this team I will engage with parliamentary scrutiny processes, UN human rights mechanisms and Refugee, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Rights.<b>\u00a0<\/b>I will be conducting various research tasks, drafting speeches and submissions and examining policy. I will also have the opportunity to observe team meetings, attend workshops, rights talks, launches and commissioner briefings. Furthermore, I will work collaboratively with Senior Commissioners and participate in visits to other agencies and organisations. I am ecstatic to be selected for this opportunity to gain a practical understanding of human rights promotion and protection and to gain an insight into the work the Commission undertakes as a National Human Rights Institution.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;background: white\">Congratulations to Lauren on such a great achievement!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice undergraduate student, Lauren Wilkins, has recently been successful in securing an internship at the Australian Human Rights Commission.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[11635,11636,11399],"class_list":{"0":"post-1585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australianhumanrightscommission","9":"tag-laurenwilkins","10":"tag-undergraduate"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}