ATTENTION FILMMAKERS! Are you an amateur or professional filmmaker passionate about human rights?

Submit your original human rights short to the 2010 ICCL Human Rights Film Awards, Ireland’s only human rights short film competition.

The deadline for entries is Friday, 16 April 2010.

For full competition details and for an application pack, please visit the competition website at: www.humanrightsfilmawards.org

General Summary of Position:

The Irish RAXEN National Focal Point (NFP) for RAXEN Europe is currently 

seeking a Research Officer for a position of up to one-year to join the 

NFP team of academics and researchers involved in conducting

 research on the following three discrete and short projects:

1. The Situation of Asylum Seekers: Asylum Procedures and the Right to Work  
2. Racist and Related Hate Crimes in the EU  
3. A complimentary data collection report on issues relating to racism, xenophobia and related intolerances

  For further details please click here

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