OHCHR Indigenous Fellowship Program 2027 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: September 6, 2026

Applications for the OHCHR Indigenous Fellowship Program 2027 are actually open. The Indigenous Fellowship Programme was launched in 1997 by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) within the context of the primary International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People. The goal of the programme is to present indigenous individuals the OPPORTUNITY to realize data concerning the UN system and mechanisms coping with human rights points usually and indigenous points specifically.

Trained individuals are higher outfitted to help their organisations and communities in defending and selling their rights. This coaching programme is on the market in 4 languages: English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. Fellows from all 4 language elements of the programme are educated along with simultaneous interpretation over 4 weeks in Geneva. The date of the coaching programme often coincides with the annual session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (June/July annually), permitting the fellows to take part extra actively in that Mechanism.

Benefits

• The chosen candidates are entitled to a return flight ticket, dwelling bills and fundamental medical health insurance in the course of the coaching.

Eligibility

• The candidate should be indigenous (non-indigenous individuals is not going to be considered, even when they’ve shut hyperlinks with indigenous communities and/or organizations).
• Indigenous candidates, together with ladies, LGBTQI+ people, and individuals with disabilities, are strongly inspired to apply.
• Age shouldn’t be a limitation to participation within the programme.
• Formal schooling shouldn’t be a limitation to participation within the IFP given the socio-financial boundaries confronted by many indigenous peoples that restrict entry to formal academic establishments.
• Candidates ought to agree to coach different indigenous individuals after the return to their respective communities/organizations.
• The candidate must be proposed, and his/her candidacy supported by his/her indigenous group and/or neighborhood. It is fascinating that the sponsoring group has a agency constituency or membership and that it’s consultant.
• The candidate ought to have a very good working data of the language during which the programme is imparted.

Application

Ensure to submit your on-line application properly earlier than the deadline of 6 September 2026 (23:59 Geneva time). Fellowship purposes will solely be considered if they’re absolutely accomplished. Both elements I and II of the application type should be accomplished.

Application kinds should embrace an official advice letter from the nominating Indigenous group or neighborhood. Applicants ought to add their advice letters on to the net application type.

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For extra info, go to OHCHR Indigenous Fellowship.