Do you enjoy writing about rights?

10 April 2017 by Adam Wagner

RightsInfo, the UK Human Rights Blog’s sister site, is looking for new volunteer writers. Do you have a passion for human rights and can you write about law for a lay audience? If so, please apply! All details below, via RightsInfo.

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We’ve had a cracking start to the year, covering all the biggest human rights news from Brexit developments to the London terror attack, Tory MPs who say we must stay in the Human Rights Convention to why the Tampon Tax is a human rights issue.

Most of what we produce is written by our amazing volunteer team. To support our news coverage further, we’re seeking new volunteers to write for RightsInfo. We are looking for people with excellent writing skills and a good knowledge and understanding of UK human rights law. If you’re keen on British politics, Brexit or human rights in practice then all the better!

We particularly need people who have time to work on more responsive pieces mid-week as part of our news rota, but we’d love to hear from you even if that’s not you.

If you’d like to apply, send us:

• a brief statement on why you would be a good volunteer (max. 100 words)
• a summary in 150 words or fewer of this recent ‘right to die’ case, aimed at a lay audience – no legalese please!
• an indication of whether you would be able to be ‘on call’ one day per week to help us respond to breaking human rights news and, if so, which day of the week you would be able to cover
• All in the body text please – no attachments and no C.V.s please!

Please email your application to info@rightsinfo.org no later than 10pm on Sunday 30th April with the subject line “Volunteer application – [NAME]” and with the case summary and other information all in the body text of the email. We regret that due to the high number of candidates expected, we cannot give individual feedback.

We look forward to hearing from you – good luck!