Ramadhan Abubakar, President of the East Africa Law Society, offers opening remarks at a meeting of bar association leaders in Nairobi, Kenya, October 9, 2025. Photo credit: Bowmans Kenya While in Kenya to attend the African Bar Association Presidents’ Summit in October, Adaobi Egboka, the Vance Center’s Director, Africa Initiatives, hosted a constructive meeting with leaders of bar organizations from half a dozen countries. The conversation, held on on October 9, 2025, highlighted the Vance Center’s existing pro bono efforts in Africa and offered a space to discuss collaborative ideas to advance pro bono in the bar leaders’ respective jurisdictions.... read more
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Vance Center Promotes Pro Bono in Africa in Events with Bar Association Leaders in Kenya and Nigeria
Posted on October 20, 2025
Vance Center Staff Contribute to Inaugural African Bar Association Presidents’ Summit in Kenya
Posted on October 13, 2025Panelists (L-R): Prof. Kivutha Kibwana of Daystar University; Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Director of UNEP’s Law Division; Adaobi Egboka, Director, Africa Initiatives at the Vance Center; and Maria Mbeneka, Council Member and Treasurer of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association. Photo credit: Vance Center This inaugural summit, titled “Catalyzing Environmental Rule of Law for Environmental Action in the African Region,” was organized by the Law Society of Kenya and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in partnership with the East Africa Law Society and Daystar University in Kenya. On October 8 and 9, the event brought together presidents of bar associations, jurists, academics, policymakers,... read more
Vance Center Supports Law Society of Kenya Initiative to Document Human Rights Violations
Posted on May 12, 2025Participants at one of the LSK’s Justice Centers. After completing the training sessions, including the one led by the Vance Center, the trained advocates, rapporteurs, and paralegals were stationed at various court stations and justice centers to apply their knowledge to documenting cases of human rights violations, May 7-9, 2025. Photo credit: Law Society of Kenya The Vance Center and partner organizations in Kenya provided an in-depth two-day training session that instructed 60 advocates, rapporteurs, and paralegals deployed by the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) on methods to document human rights violations that arose from national protests last year. ... read more