Human Rights
(Photo Credit: Isabella Cordua) The Vance Center and local partner organization AdvocAid[1] facilitated a series of training workshops for police officers in Sierra Leone, as part of the Vance Ce...
Human Rights
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights recently held a virtual proceeding to consider testimony from two victims in the case Mota Abarullo and others v. Venezuela. The case concerns the death o...
Human Rights
Members of the Women in Prison Network, convened by the Vance Center, submitted open letters to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Righ...
Human Rights
The number of women in prison has dramatically increased around the world in recent years, yet little is known about the causes and consequences of women’s incarceration.
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...
