2025 Center for Civil Liberties
Host Organization: Center for Civil Liberties
Website: https://ccl.org.ua
Organization Profile: Human/civil rights advocacy organization with 26 permanent employees and between 10-20 volunteers.
City: Kyiv
Internship format: Virtual (Remote)
Department Profile: International relations, outreach, and partnership
Project description:
The Center for Civil Liberties is a non-partisan, independent, not-for-profit organization based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The Center for Civil Liberties was established in 2007 in Kyiv. The organization is known for its work in:
- Promoting reforms in the field of the rule of law
- Aligning national legislation in accordance with human rights standards to meet EU and Council of Europe standards *(see for ex. the ratification of Istambul Convention 2022), the ICC Rome Statute adoption is one of our priorities.
- Documenting war crimes during the Russian armed aggression
- Conducting training on human rights and democracy
- Monitoring the activities of the police, courts and local self-government authorities.
Since its foundation in 2007, CCL has systematically mobilized a large number of volunteers and collaborated with various NGOs in order to unite forces and solve complex human rights problems in modern Ukraine in the face of armed conflict. CCL witnessed the most important events in modern Ukrainian history, including the Maidan protests (2014), the annexation of Crimea (2014), the invasion of Donbas (since 2014) and the full-scale Russian invasion (since 2022).
The organization actively participates in international networks and solidarity actions for the protection of human rights in the OSCE region.
Before the start of the full-scale invasion, we had the experience of documenting war crimes in Donbas, and we also actively worked and are working towards the release of Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages held in Russia. We conducted extensive public campaigns #saveOlegSentsov and #PrisonersVoice, attracting the attention of the European community, which contributed to numerous releases.
The activities of the Center are aimed at protecting human rights and promoting democracy in Ukraine and the OSCE region. The organization is known for its work on improving legislation, implementing public control practices, conducting educational activities and protecting persecuted people in the occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas.
Main tasks for the intern:
Legal research, campaigns, and communications, communicating with international missions, and human rights NGOs.
Interns can choose to work on the following:
- Analytical work (monitoring, collection and processing of information)
- Translation (from Ukrainian to English and vice versa)
- Work with graphic editors (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)
- Organization of events
- Work with registers and databases
- Analysis and development of legislation
- Policy analysis
- Media analysis
- Development of communication materials (writing texts, creating content)
- SMM (Facebook) + SMM (Instagram)
- Video production (shooting, editing, writing video scripts, YouTube)
Number of Opening(s): 1
Work Hours and Internship Start/End Dates: (Monday to Friday, June 16 – August 8, 2025) Full time/five days and 35-40 hours a week. Flexibility in terms of time.
Work Attire: Casual
Local Language: Ukrainian, Russian
Local language needed: Local language is not required. Office staff that will work with the interns speak English.
Additional desired intern qualifications: Intern should be able to work independently.
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