The Vance Center is pleased to welcome Wilmer Gonzalez as Latin America Policy Manager. In this role, Wilmer will work on programs to strengthen judicial independence and address corruption in La... Read More
By a vote of 161-0-8 (abstentions), the UN General Assembly in July passed a resolution recognizing the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and called upon States, international... Read More
Vance Center Environment Program Staff Attorney Sam Bookman was recently awarded the Richard Hart Prize. Read More
The National Endowment for Democracy awarded the Vance Center’s Human Rights Program a grant for two years to support a strategic litigation initiative as part of its Women in Prison Project to... Read More
Lawyers for Reporters, the Vance Center’s two-year-old collaboration with the Press Freedom Defense Fund, achieved notable milestones in its delivery of pro bono legal representation to local a... Read More
The Vance Center led the drafting and submission of a joint report on the status of judicial independence in Guatemala, as part of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review process. The organi... Read More
