Featured Project
Program Updates
Vance Center in the News
Featured Project: Pro Bono
Declaration for the Americas
Final Draft of the Pro Bono Declaration for
the Americas Released
In
June, the Pro Bono Declaration for the Americas regional drafting committee
completed and approved the final text of the
Declaration after a year of consultation
with members of the legal community in Latin America. The committee will
now begin the process of collecting signatures and preparing for the
Declaration's launch in late 2007. >>>
The Vance Center wishes to thank LexisNexis
Martindale-Hubbell for its generous support of the Pro Bono Declaration for
the Americas project.
Program Updates
Lawyers Share Strategies for Advancing
Women in the Legal Profession
Vance Center representatives traveled to
Argentina in April to meet with women lawyers and share strategies for
advancing gender diversity in Latin American law firms.
>>>
Amicus
Briefs Submitted to Inter-American Commission
Two amicus
briefs facilitated by the Vance Center's Amicus Network were recently
filed at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. One concerns
access to state-held information and the other due process of law and
freedom of speech. >>>
Lawyers Research Gender-Based Violence Legislation in Africa
Working with the Vance Center and
the City Bar's African Affairs Committee, lawyers from Cleary Gottlieb
Steen & Hamilton analyze the state of gender-based violence legislation in
sub-Saharan Africa. >>>
Vance
Center Staff Member To Assume Position in Africa
The Vance Center's Princeton Project 55
fellow, Alyson Zureick, will begin a fellowship with the International
Rescue Committee in Sierra Leone in September.
>>>
Volunteers Lend Their Expertise to Vance Center Projects
Meet the Vance Center's 2007
volunteers. >>>
Gabriel Moreira Pinto. "Advocacia Solidária" Informativo — Carta Forense. No 47 Abril 2007, Ano V. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
"Pro Bono declaration finalised"
Latin Lawyer,
12 June 2007.
"Pro Bono: Justicia para todos"
Nota Uniandina,
April 2007.
"Servicios jurídicos
gratuitos: el nuevo compromiso social de las firmas de abogados"
Ámbito Jurídico
(Colombia) 18 March 2007.
"Abogados defenderÁn gratis" La República (Peru) 1 February 2007.
Announcements
Read the full text of the
Pro Bono Declaration for the Americas in
English and
Spanish. The Declaration will be available
in Portuguese later this summer.
Resources
Best Practices for the Hiring,
Training, Retention, and Advancement of Women Attorneys
The Vance Center is
working with the Committee on Women in the Profession of the New York City
Bar to make the committee's manual on promoting women in the legal
profession available to lawyers in Latin America and Africa. Download the
report below:
English
Español
Visit the Vance Center's Library for additional resources.
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The Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice provides support to lawyers around the globe who engage in activities that expand access to justice, ensure a fair and equitable judicial system, develop public policies that address social needs, and create public confidence in the legal profession. Founded on the principle that lawyers have an important role to play in promoting social justice and strengthening democracy, the Center honors the memory of Cyrus R. Vance, a past president of the New York City Bar, whose life and career exemplify the important contribution lawyers can make in democratic societies.