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There are currently no vacancies available. If you are interested in the Human Rights Law Centre’s work, you can sign up to our newsletter and donate to support us.
Volunteer
Co-design our Youth Justice Storytelling Project
Use your lived experience of the youth justice to design our new storytelling project
Meet other people with lived experience wanting to make a difference
$500 payment for two days of your time
22-23 August in Naarm/Melbourne
Travel and accommodation costs covered
Download the information pack here (PDF)
We strongly encourage you to have read through the information pack before applying.
Apply for the Youth Justice Storytelling Project here
Applications close on 11.59pm, Thursday 25 July 2024.
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with us and supporting human rights. Regrettably, we are only able to take on a limited number of volunteers. We want to make sure that our volunteers are properly supervised and have interesting, challenging work.
We do take law student volunteers through established programs with universities and organisations, and these programs will be advertised through the relevant organisation. Unfortunately, we do not have the capacity to take on high school work experience placements.
Resources for getting involved
We are sometimes asked for advice about how to get involved in volunteering and human rights law. Some helpful resources and tips are below:
Volunteering in community legal centres – Federation of Community Legal Centres.
Castan Centre for Human Rights Law & Progressive Law Network – Public Interest Law Careers Guide
University of Melbourne – Careers in Public Interest Law
So you want to be a human rights lawyer? RMIT Centre for Innovative Justice video
Bill Quigley’s Letter to a Law Student Interested in Social Justice