The Open Society Institute and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office offer scholarships that enable students from select Central Eurasian and Islamic countries to pursue postgraduate programs at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre. The two programs offered are the MA in Theory and Practice of Human Rights and the LLM in International Human Rights Law. Each award will provide for payment of academic tuition fees, examination fees, a monthly stipend for living expenses sufficient for a single student, and other agreed allowances including one return economy airfare.

View the guidelines for applicants from Indonesia, Jordan, and the Palestinian Territories (Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel are also eligible to apply).

View the guidelines for applicants from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.