Call for Submissions & Volunteering Opportunity

Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), a human rights, non-commercial organization, invite submissions from lawyers, activists, students, journalists among others engaged with issues of human rights, communalism, caste, and the law for publication on both, Citizens for Justice and Peace and Sabrang India.

Submissions Guidelines

• Categories:
• Documentation: Uploading Material on the Website and Archiving the Website
• Writings
  IN FACT: ‘In-facts’ (explore an issue factually through brief, analytical segments, divided into subheads. Examples of this can be found here and here)
• Fact-sheets on human rights issues: Short readable material focusing on a single human rights issue, with facts, figures, legal developments, and executive and policy decisions.
• Primers on judgments/judicial decisions/tribunal decision; primers on issues arising from judicial decisions; law commission reports (international, national)
• International Law and International Jurisprudence on human rights issues will also require attention.
• Research papers: Case Commentaries and Section Commentaries
• Language: Submissions accepted in both English and Hindi
• Co-authorship: Allowed
• Format:
• Document: Microsoft Word format only
• Videos must be sent via YouTube
• Pictures should be embedded in a word document
• If possible, please send a picture to be used along with your piece under the Creative Commons license. If you do not send a picture, the editorial team will pick an appropriate picture to go with your piece.

Submission Process

All submissions must be sent along with the following:

• A short description of the writing piece (around 100 words)
• A two-line bio of the author(s)

The subject of the e-mail should be ‘Submission’.

E-mail ID: info[at]cjp.org.in

Research Volunteering

Eligibility

Law students from 3rd Year are invited to work with CJP on researching various ongoing litigation on human rights issues, from within the courts and through policy decisions of the executive.

About the Research Volunteering

The work would involve researching ongoing litigation processes that CJP and other human rights organizations are involved in, especially those related to diversity, discrimination, land and forest rights, labour and violence, particularly structural violence.

Stipend (If Any)

Unpaid

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