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Compare this statement: > "Interns get a lot of experience," says Ahmad Fawzi, head of the UN's information service in Geneva. "First-hand knowledge about how
by awendt 11y ago
Compare this statement:
> "Interns get a lot of experience," says Ahmad Fawzi, head of the UN's information service in Geneva. "First-hand knowledge about how the international system works: it's invaluable for them, and they have fun."
(while not paying your interns) to Article 23 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
> (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
- hedgew 11y agoNot to mention that unpaid internships decrease economic equality and social mobility by automatically disqualifying those who can not afford to work without pay.
- justincormack 11y agoApparently the said that a resolution was passed forbidding them from paying interns. Clearly they should not take on interns in that situation but they continued to take unpaid ones alas.