Human Rights
The Human Rights and Access to Justice Program made two key presentations to international human rights bodies related to the Women in Prison initiative, which the program has pursued for three y...
Environment
The Environment Program coordinated the filing of an amicus brief in an environmental case before the Colombian Constitutional Court on behalf of Dr. Marcos Orellana, the UN Special Rapporteur on...
Other
Lawyers for Reporters has launched: the collaboration between the Vance Center and the Press Freedom Defense Fund has begun providing pro bono legal assistance to local journalism in the United S...
Other
The Vance Center Committee held its first all-online meeting, with record attendance and usually productive discussion of the organization’s and its partners’ programmatic and institutional r...
Latin America Policy, Lawyers Council
The Vance Center’s Lawyers Council for Civil and Economic Rights is analyzing how the official response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Latin America is creating corruption risks. Governments thr...
African Legal Fellows
The Vance Center, with the help of current and past African Legal Fellows from South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria, is monitoring the responses of governments to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as pr...
