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When submitting your essay attach it to an email and send it to essay_submission@humanrightsdefence.org

 

 

Rules:

  • All essays must be original; no previously published material will be accepted.

  • Each participant can submit a maximum of two essays.

  • Quotes and references must be clearly marked throughout the essay and properly cited. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that all quoted material (including statistics) is correct, relevant, and accurate. The judges will verify your citations and in case of erroneous, they might disqualify the essay.

  • Any form of plagiarism will result in automatic disqualification.

  • Every participant must provide the following personal details *:

  • Name and Surname, Valid Postal Address, and Email Address,

  • HumanRightsDefence reserves the right to publish the essay under the domain name www.humanrightsdefence.org.

  • The decision of the Jury is final and is not subject to appeal.

  • Copyrights of winning entries will apply to HumanRightsDefence.

  • HumanRightsDefence is held responsible for ensuring the author’s name is kept and publicized with the essay. It also reserves the right to remove/delete the essay without notice to or consent by the author.

  • Upon request by the author, essays may be published anonymously.

  • There is no limit on the contestant’s age or occupation. Everyone is welcome.


Guidelines:

  • Entries should be no shorter than 1000 words. However, we would like to emphasize that quality is more important than quantity.

  • You may include images in your essay

  • Your essay should include the following:

    • An introduction, which introduces the topic and contains an explanation of your position.

    • A body, which contains the main content of your essay

    • A conclusion, which summarizes the subject, research, and analysis presented in the essay and sets forth your conclusions.Your essay should also include notes and/or a bibliography except when using ‘APA style’:

  • Reference notes (footnotes or endnotes) give the sources of your information or ideas. Footnotes are placed at the end of the essay.

  • A bibliography is a list of the works that you have referred to in your essay or have consulted in order to write it.Essays are encouraged to use a variety of sources—academic journals, news magazines, newspapers, books, government documents, publications from research organizations, etc..

    We also encourage the adaption of the following guideline from the “National Peace Essay Contest 07-08”:

The Internet or World Wide Web should not be the only source for your essay. Be aware that you may encounter "republished" or "third generation" information on the Internet that is inaccurate or improperly attributed. When citing Internet sources, you must include the following information: author(s), title of work, Internet address, and date information was accessed. Detailed instructions can be obtained from the manuals listed above. For the purposes of this essay, Internet sources should be listed separately from non-electronic sources, such as books, magazines, and newspapers.


Good Essays
* Should  take up at least two and a half A4 pages.
* Are well-written
* Demonstrate that you have researched/investigated the topic
* Are submitted in plain text, HTML or MS-Word format
* Stay focused on the topic
* Use quotations and references


Try to avoid to
* Include spelling and grammatical errors
* Approach the topic so that it can only be understood by someone who already knows the topic
* Omit references to backup statements
* Submit essays that overlap heavily with previously written essays

 

 

When submitting your essay attach it to an email and send it to essay_submission@humanrightsdefence.org

 

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line |Author |2009-05-14 16:12:12
avatar Is there any maximum of words?
Provat Hasan  - thanks |120.50.26.xxx |2009-08-17 12:03:20
:cheer: thanks for asking what i want to ask..........
LuisaTeresa |SAdministrator |2009-05-16 16:38:47
avatar Hi Line,

I hope that you are well. There is an minimum of 1500 words (about 1.5 pages) and no maximum really.

Talk you soon,

Luisa T. :)
:)
Karishma |124.47.179.xxx |2009-07-24 07:29:05
Are joint entries allowed? Is this only an online competition ?
LuisaTeresa |SAdministrator |2009-07-26 14:25:34
avatar joint entries is allowed (not that possible prize money is then divided to the authors. e.g. three authors get one third each). Yes the submission and the publication is on-line.

Best regards,

Luisa
mark  - Essay Competition |82.45.212.xxx |2009-08-08 21:54:40
Hello,



Has the deadline for the competition passed? I was unable to find it on the site - The details are not in English..



Many thanks,



Mark
TomasNordlander |SAdministrator |2009-09-07 09:10:41
avatar Dear Mark,



it still open. The deadline is the 30st of September. The dates involved in the competition can be found here:



http://www.humanrightsdefence.org/important-dat...



Best regards,



Tomas









Mark |82.45.212.xxx |2009-08-10 21:40:04
Dear Tomas,



Many thanks, I will start to come up with some ideas!



Mark
LuisaTeresa |SAdministrator |2009-08-17 12:38:29
avatar Yes it is an on line competition. You are welcome to participate.
Patricia Tarre  - language |205.211.208.xxx |2009-08-18 06:14:32
Hello, the essay has to be submitten in english or can be in spanish?
LuisaTeresa |SAdministrator |2009-08-18 06:44:51
avatar It can be in spanish too.
tanmoy  - URGENT |122.50.138.xxx |2009-08-19 19:12:38
hi, i have sent one mail seeking legal advice and then resent it but till now i don't receive confirmation from you whether you have received it or not.the first mail was sent on
16.08. 2009 and i sent it again yesterday. please let me know your opinion as i would like to start an agitation very soon on this matter as it is a gross human rights violations.
regards
jakobusbenne |SAdministrator |2009-08-19 19:44:16
avatar Dear Tanmoy,

Unfortunately I am unaware of any email on your behalf. It most likely got caught up in our spam filters. I will check with the organisation's Director and come back to you as soon
as possible. Sincere apologies for the inconvenience,

Best wishes,
Benjamin
TomasNordlander |SAdministrator |2009-09-05 08:54:50
avatar Dear Tanmoy,

I know Luisa (our director) have information on your case and will attend to it as soon as she finished some of the request that came in before yours (we have a lot of request of
legal advice and the advice team is small, sadly). If you do not have Luisa private email use 'LegalAdvice@humanrightsdefence.org' and she will sent it to you. This would allow
you to correspond directly to her.

Since these questions does not fit under essay competition. I will remove part of the discussion here.

Yours sincerely,

Tomas Nordlander


tanmoy  - TO LUISA |122.50.132.xxx |2009-08-20 12:42:03
Dear Luisa, needless to say how thankful I am to you for your assurances to look into the mentioned matter.We must do something to stop the torture to innocent people in CIS. Best
wishes.. Tanmoy
Paola Frassinetti Alves de Mir  - adress |189.71.60.xxx |2009-08-21 14:02:38
Where to we must send the essays?What is the adress, the e-mail? I did not find that informations on the web site.
Tetiana |95.69.165.xxx |2009-08-21 19:40:38
Paola!I did not find that informations to! :confused: Help us!Posted image
Tetiana |95.69.165.xxx |2009-08-21 19:51:56
can I writer essey in Rusha? :) :) :)
TomasNordlander |SAdministrator |2009-08-22 17:45:18
avatar Dear Tetiana,

We only have reviewers of essay in English and Spanish. If I was you, I would try to write it in English. English not being your first language will be taken into consideration
when judging the essay.

Best regards,

Tomas
TomasNordlander |SAdministrator |2009-08-22 17:55:55
avatar Dear Paola,

sorry for not providing it clearly. You can use the email below for submission. Ensure that your get a confirmation from us that we have received your essay.

essay_submission@humanrightsdefence.org


Yours sincerely,

Tomas
Soo0405 |202.151.197.xxx |2009-09-02 06:55:10
Hi

I am 16 years old, from Malaysia, and I would like to know if I am eligible to participate, or is this opened to a certain region only?
Thanks
Terry |Author |2009-09-02 11:05:51
avatar Participants can come from any country in the world. :)
TomasNordlander |SAdministrator |2009-09-02 19:00:40
avatar yes, you are eligible to participate.

yours sincerely

Tomas
Kalpit Khandelwal  - Certificate of Participation |118.94.127.xxx |2009-09-20 08:22:18
Hiii
I am a student of law college in India. I want to know whether there is any participation certificate also for the essay competition 2009.
TomasNordlander |SAdministrator |2009-09-21 18:08:26
avatar Dear Kalpit,

yes, there is a certificate of participation that all participants receives.

Yours sincerly,

Tomas
TANMOY SEN  - THANKS A LOT LUISA FOR YOUR ADVICE |122.50.133.xxx |2009-09-28 19:04:47
Dear Luisa, Thank you very much for your kind response. I will really appreciate your advice. You must understand that there is no law in Russia which means starting an active
campaign will danger the life of the victims because the Government will just put all of them in jail or they will be just killed in a fraction of hour. I need sometime to think
over all these matters as I really want to put all those police officials in jail but it is not so easy in an iron clad country. I will reply you soon. My regards, Tanmoy
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