Human Rights
The New York City Bar Association adopted a pioneer policy statement on Business and Human Rights. The Vance Center’s Human Rights Program had initiated the process of developing the statement ...
Human Rights
The Vance Center’s Women in Prison Project, and specifically the Project’s initiatives to address the Covid-19 pandemic in places of detention for women in the Global South, recently have rec...
Latin America Policy, Lawyers Council
The Vance Center’s Lawyers Council for Civil and Economic Rights published a follow-up report available in Spanish analyzing Guatemala’s judicial appointments process and the new presidential...
Pro Bono Promotion
The Vance Center and the Pro Bono Network of the Americas launched a series of virtual conversations with respective executive directors of the Network’s member and affiliate pro bono clearingh...
Lawyers For Reporters, Other
The Vance Center’s special initiative, Lawyers for Reporters, a collaboration with the Press Freedom Defense Fund to provide pro bono legal support to local journalism in the United States, has...
African Legal Fellows
The Vance Center African Legal Fellows had a virtual meeting with Sheila Boston, the newly-inaugurated president of the New York City Bar Association and its executive director, Bret Parker. Also...
