Connecting for Justice Worldwide
2015 Highlights We collaborated with the Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) in Zimbabwe to support legislation to prohibit child marriage. IANGEL connected RAU with an international law firm that provided sophisticated international comparative research on child marriage laws in the South African Development Community states. Building on this connection, IANGEL and RAU presented two educational forums in the United States on issues related to child marriage and critical women’s rights issues in Zimbabwe.
12 NEW GLOBAL PROJECT PARTNERS (#100% vs. 2014)
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651 INDIVIDUALS
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We hosted a gala celebration of International Women’s Rights Day, and IANGEL’s second anniversary, featuring stirring and inspirational comments from Camila Chavez, Executive Director of the Dolores Huerta Foundation. At this celebration, we honored dedicated women’s rights activists Ioana Tchoukleva and Andrea Carlise for their outstanding leadership to advance women’s rights.
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We produced a groundbreaking research paper, “Pro Bono Legal Services for Human Rights: Essential Work for the Public Good,” to encourage law firms to embrace and support human rights work as an essential part of their pro bono programs. We attended the UN Commission on the Status of Women meeting in New York, joining thousands of women from around the world to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the historic Beijing Conference. At the UN meeting, IANGEL Executive Director Cecilia Lipp and board member Stella Odife were featured speakers, addressing critical issues in women’s human rights. We collaborated with UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy to support its Hague Domestic Violence Project with the creation of its comprehensive new practice guide, securing donated printing, and connecting the project with sponsors to host free in-person and online trainings on the material.
We hosted a free CLE “Legal Perspectives on Eliminating Discrimination Against Women” discussing the UN’s Convention to End all Forms of Discrimination Against Women and support for CEDAW concepts in Portland, OR.
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NEW TWITTER FOLLOWERS (#82% vs. 2014)
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NEW FACEBOOK CONNECTIONS (#95% vs. 2014)
We celebrated with the Boalt Hall Women’s Association, when they honored IANGEL founder and president, Nancy Newman, with their inaugural “Women Advancing the Law” practitioner award. We also celebrated IANGEL board member, Mary Wolverton, as a leader in law by the Wisconsin Law Journal.
We coordinated with the Alliance for International Women’s Rights (AIWR) to connect US law professors to law professors in Afghanistan through AIWR’s mentorship program. We also have collaborated on the development of AIWR’s curriculum on the Constitution of Afghanistan with pro bono support of a law school alumni group.
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NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NEW INTERNS: Tokyo, New York and San Francisco NEW BOARD MEMBERS (#100% vs. 2014) (#300% vs. 2014) (#29% vs. 2014)
Throughout the year, we have had the honor of connecting and collaborating with partners in Afghanistan, the Czech Republic, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Senegal, Sweden, Tunisia, Uganda, the United States and Zimbabwe.
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