Engaging Pro-Bono Lawyers
Wednesday May 27 - Tuesday June 02 , 2009
- By: New Tactics in Human Rights
- Location:
Minneapolis, United StatesMap: maps.google.com
- Contact:
- Website: www.newtactics.org
This online dialogue will be space for practitioners to share successful tactics for engaging pro-bono, or free, legal services through access to a variety of professional resources.
Our featured resource practitioners include:
Basil Fernando of the Asia Human Rights Commission (NGO), China
Regina Germain of the Rocky Mountain Survivors Center, United States
Jennifer Prestholdt, Rosalyn Park and Colleen Beebe of The Advocates, United States
Tafadzwa Ralph Mugabe of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Zimbabwe
Nyaradzo Muza of the Lawyers for Human Rights, South Africa
Dewa Mavhinga, an independent pro-bono human rights lawyer, Zimbabwe
Entila Zyba of the Albanian Disability Rights Foundation, Albania
Sardar Bagishbekov of the Voice of Freedom, Kyrgyz Republic
Elisabeth Baraka of the Advocates for International Development, United Kingdom
Wilbert Mandinde, Zimbabwe (currently at the University of Essex in the UK)
Shuhrat Bukhara of the Rapid Response Group and the Humanitarian-Legal Center, Uzbekistan
Eric Lockwood of the Instituto Pro Bono, Brazil
Rex Fernandez of Karapatan, Philippines

