Vance Center Executive Director Alex Papachristou and AfroLA founder Dana Amihere during a panel discussion at INN Days in San Diego, June 12, 2024. Photo credit: Fabiola Lopez On June 12, Papachristou moderated a panel at the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) Days conference entitled “Publishing News? Then Yes, You Need a Lawyer.” During the session, he presented the work of Lawyers for Reporters and engaged in dialogue with Dana Amihere, founder of AfroLA, a nonprofit digital news outlet that covers greater Los Angeles through the lens of the Black community, and a longtime LFR client. Amihere described AfroLA’s recent investigative... read more
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Africa Program Participates in University of Dayton Human Rights Center Conference Marking 75th Anniversary of the UDHR
Posted on November 13, 2023Africa Program Director Adaobi Egboka moderated a panel during the 2023 Joint Convening of the Social Practice of Human Rights Conference and the 6th International Conference on the Right to Development, held on November 2-4. The hybrid conference, which also marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, was hosted by the University of Dayton Human Rights Center in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law, and the Free State Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of the Free State, both in South Africa. ... read more
Reporters Shield Highlighted at Conferences on Human Rights, Investigative Journalism
Posted on October 13, 2023Vance Center Executive Director Alexander Papachristou at the ABA’s Human Rights and Rule of Law Summit, September 6, 2023. Photo: Vance Center Vance Center Executive Director Alexander Papachristou participated in a panel discussion as part of the American Bar Association’s first Human Rights and Rule of Law Summit, hosted at the New York City Bar Association on September 6. During the panel, entitled “Defending Human Rights Defenders,” Papachristou and the other speakers – Ginna Anderson, associate director of the ABA’s Center for Human Rights; Mooya Nyaundi, Advocacy Director on US-Africa Foreign Policy at Open Society Foundations-US; and Sirikan Charoensiri, co-founder... read more
Vance Center Engages at Pan African Lawyers Union Conference in Zambia
Posted on July 31, 2023In early July, Vance Center Africa Program Director Adaobi Egboka traveled to Zambia to explore new programmatic opportunities, meet with existing and prospective partners, and attend the annual Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) conference. read more