Human Rights Advisor - AMERICAN SYSTEMS - Alabama

American Systems is seeking Human Rights Advisors for a critical Department of State program supporting the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Human rights work typically involves monitoring, investigating and reporting on the human rights situation, analyzing relevant laws and practices, intervening with national authorities to address human rights violations and ensure compliance with relevant human rights standards and national laws. It may also involve monitoring the judicial system as a whole, including trials, as well as situations involving minorities, refugees/internally displaced persons (IDPs) and freedom of movement issues. In addition, human rights work can involve promoting public awareness of human rights, human rights education, addressing gender equality, Roma and Sinti tolerance, non-discrimination, and trafficking in person issues.

About REACT and the OSCE:
In November 1999, the participating States (pS) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) endorsed Rapid Expert and Assistance Cooperation Teams (better known as REACT) as a tool to enable the OSCE to deploy civilian experts more rapidly to the field to undertake activities associated with conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation. The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) sponsors election monitoring missions in OSCE pS and Partner countries. The OSCE’s Partner States include: Japan, Republic of (South) Korea, Mongolia, Thailand, Afghanistan, and Australia (as Asian Partners for Cooperation), and Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia (as Mediterranean Partners for Cooperation).

Work Locations: Caucasus, Balkans , Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia