Our global community outreach and pro bono strategy focuses on providing the best possible support to our NGO and charity clients, whilst at the same time expanding the capabilities of our people and strengthening relationships, partnership and collaboration.
During the coronavirus pandemic, the protection of human rights and civil liberties has been even more important than ever before. Brussels-based Partner Dorothée Vermeiren and Prague-based Senior Associate Jan Dobrý discuss the firm's work with global criminal justice watchdog, Fair Trials.
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as part of our long-term strategic pro bono and community outreach relationships.
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to help strengthen the capabilities of our people and our relationships and help our pro bono clients achieve their mission.
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invested to support the widest range of civil society organisations from small community-based organisations to international NGOs.
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With the coronavirus pandemic wreaking so much damage, many businesses have sought to direct their core skills, as well as their financial resources, towards addressing the consequences of the crisis.
We were able to support many of the most vulnerable individuals and communities affected by the pandemic and its effects through a number of our pre-existing pro bono relationships. On a local level, we continued to run our free legal clinics remotely and provide vital pro-bono legal advice to individuals and communities on a variety of areas of law including employment, welfare entitlement and housing issues.
"Through our partnership with the International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination (ICAAD), we've worked together to tackle discrimination linked to gender-based violence in the Pacific Islands; to develop strategies for three Pacific Island nations as they prepare to renegotiate Compact of Free Association (COFA) agreements with the United States; and to find ways to hold tea gardens in India accountable to the fair trade employment standards under which their tea is marketed.
While ICAAD is a relatively small organisation, its appetite for taking on large-scale, international issues to drive meaningful change is hugely inspiring."
Celeste Koeleveld, Partner, New York
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As we try to build a better, more sustainable future, it is the fundamental principles of the law that guide us, as a responsible business: equality and fairness, access to justice, effective regulation and government, and the promotion and protection of human rights.
Our 2020 report demonstrates our commitment to sustainable growth and how it has endured and been strengthened during a period of uncertainty and change.
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