The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights has received a $10,000 grant from Tiffany & Co. in support of the AnneMerie Donoghue Human Rights Fellowship program. The fellowships provide funds for student summer internships and research jobs in areas pertaining to human rights, with particular emphasis on issues affecting women and children. The contribution is earmarked toward summer '05 fellowships.
"The AnneMerie Donoghue Fellowships give students a chance to take part in vitally important human rights work taking place worldwide," said P. Edward Haley, the W.M. Keck Professor of International Strategic Studies and acting director of the Center. "We are enormously grateful to Tiffany for its support of this program."
Past fellows have traveled to the United Kingdom, Rwanda, Bulgaria, and across the United States, working for such organizations as Amnesty International and Aegis Trust. Students applying for the fellowships must submit a proposal to either work in areas of research, or in human rights-related fieldwork, domestically or abroad.
Milli Kanani '05, who worked on behalf of prisoners at the Rule of Law Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria, says the fellowship afforded her the chance to study and live abroad, working in a field she may someday follow professionally. "But more importantly," she says, "It was an opportunity to reflect upon my experience and emerge from it changed, with a clearer, though different, vision."
Earlier this month, an event celebrating the gift from Tiffany, and honoring AnneMerie and Leigh Crawford '94, as well as those students who have benefited from the fellowships, was held at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum.