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Pro Bono Report – 2024
In 2024, the Vance Center provided 174 clients with pro bono representation in 235 matters, collaborating as co-counsel with 844 lawyers from 164 law firms across 69 countries.
Our annual Pro Bono Report includes summaries of selected matters involving some of the 28 law firms represented on the Vance Center Committee, covering our four thematic program areas.
Highlights:
Environment Program: Contributing to an upcoming UN Special Rapporteur Report on ocean governance and human rights law, preparing a draft carbon compensation agreement for an environmental justice organization, research on the Global Plastics Treaty and climate change mitigation, and more.
Human Rights and Access to Justice Program: Preparing a UPR submission on women in prison in El Salvador, mapping legal protections against workplace sexual harassment in Africa, representing imprisoned Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora before international human rights bodies, and more.
Institutional Integrity Program: Submitting an amicus curiae brief on Inter-American Court jurisdiction in Venezuela, enhancing IACHR standards for granting precautionary measures to judges at risk, the release of the 2023-2024 Latin America Anti-Corruption Assessment, and more.
Public Interest Reporting Program: Assisting exiled media outlets to establish nonprofit organizations, advising on a nonprofit media merger, defamation defense for an international investigative publisher, and more.
