<strong>Anna Jeffries</strong>

Anna Jeffries is here at Asia Centre from July through September 2<img class="alignright wp-image-2701" src="http://asiacentre.co.th/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Bio-Picture-1-1140x641.jpg" alt="Bio Picture" width="298" height="168" />016 for a research internship
on human rights.  Her focus is the role and impact of Southeast Asian civil society and the Universal Periodic Review.  Anna is completing her degree in Global Studies: Global Security at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is also pursuing studies in Japanese and Korean.  She chose her internship with Asia Centre to allow her to gain a wide range of skills including event management, budgeting, fundraising, research, and leadership skills. When not researching and studying Anna enjoys trying new foods, reading a good book, and watching movies.

Anna was connected with Asia Centre by our partner organisation, <a href="http://aipglobal.co" target="_blank">AIPGlobal</a>.

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<strong>Silvia Waldbach</strong>

<span style="font-weight: 400;"><img class="size-full wp-image-2845 alignleft" src="http://asiacentre.co.th/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-09-05-at-17.28.20.png" alt="Screen Shot 2016-09-05 at 17.28.20" width="190" height="271" />Silvia Waldbach is doing a research internship at Asia Centre from September to December 2016. The focus of her research is on national human rights institutions in Southeast Asia and their engagement with the Universal Periodic Review process. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">She is in the last year of a bachelors degree in International Cultural and Business Studies with focus on Southeast Asia, at the University of Passau, Germany.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">She decided to do an internship at Asia Centre because she wants to deepen her knowledge of contemporary Southeast Asian issues and improve her research, writing and organizing skills. She also enjoys working in an international work environment with various kinds of stakeholders from international and local civil society, to academia and the private sector. In her free time, Silvia likes spending time in nature, going to concerts, travelling and cooking.</span>

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