Human Rights
The Vance Center initiated a letter from the New York City Bar Association to UN ambassadors of the United States and several other countries on the financial crisis threatening to close the UN S...
Human Rights
Vance Center Programs Director Marie-Claude Jean-Baptiste joined a two-day roundtable on the “human rights of persons deprived of liberty and regional challenges” hosted by the Observ...
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...
