Fair Internship Initiative

The Fair Internship Initiative is a youth-led organization advocating for fair and accessible internship programmes in the UN system.

[Fair Internship Initiative @FII_Geneva]

📢 Calling all @UN Interns! Are you a current intern or completed your internship after Jan 1, 2022? Share your voice & fill out our UN #Interns survey!

🔗 Link: https://t.co/YdngE6zEOm

Your responses will be kept confidential & anonymous.
#EndUnpaidInternships #PayYourInterns

[Rosa D'Amato @rosadamato634]

@Youth_Forum @EPSocialAffairs @Europarl_EN @EuropeanYouthEU @aliciahoms @JaroslawDuda @MonicaSemedoLux @joseggusmao @FII_Geneva @payourinterns Remain vigilant! Press #MEPs of all groups. @RenewEurope, @EPPGroup @ecrgroup @IDGroupEP. Continue to press until the vote in plenary. Tag @EU_Commission : we want a directive!

[Fair Internship Initiative @FII_Geneva]

Sous payés, peu réglementés, ces stages qui poussent les jeunes dans la précarité
https://t.co/dMWRO6GhEo par @letemps

[European Youth Forum @Youth_Forum]

Will you help us reach 10 000 signatures? 🖊 It's time to finally #BanUnpaidInternships in Europe

Young people can't afford to work for free 🚫 That's why we work to change that. But we need your help. Sign the petition now 👉 https://t.co/JFs7Cw1eFu

#ForYouthRights

[Marianna Lepore @MariannaLepore]

La vergogna dei #tirocini gratis all'Onu, l’Assemblea: “bisogna pagarli”. Ma poi rimanda al 2025 https://t.co/9irkmCLt4e @Repub_stagisti @FII_Geneva

[Fair Internship Initiative @FII_Geneva]

We're just one day away before we get underway!!!
📢Join the Intern Board Congress 2023 and connect with other interns across the UN system
🕒18:30 CEST / 12:30 ET
📍Hybrid / Webex + Geneva for in-person participants
✍🏻Register here: https://t.co/CYN2WIKSuy
#IBCongress23

[Fair Internship Initiative @FII_Geneva]

📢 Join us for the Intern Board Congress 2023 and connect with interns from across the UN system!
🕒: 18:30 CEST / 12:30 ET
📍: Hybrid / Webex + Geneva for in-person participants
✍🏾: Register here: https://t.co/CYN2WIKSuy

#IBCongress2023
#UNInterns
#fairinternship

[European Youth Forum @Youth_Forum]

Where do we go from here? 👀 Yesterday we got a step closer to quality #internships in Europe 👏

The @EPSocialAffairs in the @Europarl_EN voted in favour of a report calling for an EU directive ensuring pay for interns in the labour market ✅ Next step?

#BanUnpaidInternships✊

[YouLead Africa @OneYoungAfrica]

We’re saying NO to unpaid internships! They make opportunities inaccessible to qualified candidates who cannot afford to work without pay.
We join @FII_Geneva in advocating for fair & accessible internship programmes in the UN system.

#Payyourinterns #UNpaid = #UNfair

[Fair Internship Initiative @FII_Geneva]

@PetriderPaul @UN indeed, and the fight continues !

[Fair Internship Initiative @FII_Geneva]

Great news🗽!🇺🇳 @UN 5C has agreed on HRM , requests SG to to provide stipends for interns. This victory comes aft yrs of advocacy, ∞ hrs of work, hnds of wonderf ppl doing their best, the tent 🏕️, ∞ meetings & trainings, demos 📢, strikes ✊, surveys 📊, articles🗞️ & congresses

[Fair Internship Initiative @FII_Geneva]

@NoreenToroka @UN thank you Noreen for your support!

[Alealexandra @alexandrarrrank]

In solidarity of the Fair Internship Initiative @FII_Geneva's global strike, we convened an action to show support and kick off the formalization of an Intern Committee in Nairobi. Nairobi-specific claims are to be collected still but long term goal: #UNpaid #UNfair #UNacceptable

[European Youth Forum @Youth_Forum]

On this World Day of #SocialJustice ⚖️🌎we stand by interns who are striking globally & demanding their rights to fair pay 💰

#BanUnpaidInternships #UNpaidisUNfair #PayYourInterns #GlobalInternStrike2023 @FII_Geneva

[Fair Internship Initiative @FII_Geneva]

Today is the Global Intern Strike 2023! 🥳

Join UN interns from Geneva, Copenhagen, Nairobi and more in striking for paid internships, basic rights and commitments to diversity and inclusion across all UN internships🇺🇳

#UNpaidisUNfair
#PayYourInterns
#GlobalInternStrike2023

[Fair Internship Initiative @FII_Geneva]

Unpaid internships are unfair, undermine UN's declarations on diversity & increase intern vulnerability. We call EVERYONE (not just interns) to join the annual #GlobalInternStrike on February 20th in Geneva physically and globally here on UN's Social Justice day #UNpaidisUNfair

[Fair Internship Initiative @FII_Geneva]

This proves, once more, why remote and unpaid internships decrease number of interns from developing countries and should not be allowed in 2023. Join this upcoming #GlobalInternsStrike in Geneva physically and the rest of the world digitally, to call to #banunpaidinternships 3/3

[Fair Internship Initiative @FII_Geneva]

For ex between 2020 and 2021, East Asia & Pacific, & Sub-saharan Africa had the biggest drop in interns. Perhaps this was due to time difference while the UN favoured remote internships, but also proves African countries had fewer interns during remote work 2/3

[Fair Internship Initiative @FII_Geneva]

The gratis personnel report of the Secretariat provides a retrospective look into the number of interns in the Secretariat for a given period. The latest 2021 report proves, once again, how unpaid internships undermine UN's declarations and supposed commitment to diversity 1/3

[Fair Internship Initiative @FII_Geneva]

HAPPENING TODAY! Pizza while we create pizzaz for the Global Intern Strike! See you there!