| Our international work also takes in a variety of cross-border or extra-national projects, such as political asylum, women's rights in repressive regimes, and international disputes. Through the Northwestern University Law School International Team Project, we have sponsored associates studying women's legal issues in Tanzania, financial assistance measures to rural farms by the World Bank in Vietnam, and renewable energy programs in Chile. Hector Gonzalez, a New York partner, spoke at the first pro bono conference-sponsored in El Salvador. We have provided financial assistance and working lawyers to the ABA CEELI (Central Europe and Eurasia Law Initiative) pro bono project. Tom Jersild, David Curry, and Richard Newman served with CEELI at various times in Poland, Macedonia, and Bosnia and at the CEELI Judicial Institute in Prague. Marc Kadish and the CEELI Croatia Country Director spoke at our Frankfurt office about CEELI's work. Violetta Balan, an incoming associate, did a PILI fellowship through CEELI in Bucharest.
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 | A Dream for His Father
Article mentions Mayer Brown’s role as pro bono legal counsel for The GEANCO Foundation, an organization seeking to develop and manage medical, educational, and athletic facilities in Nigeria. Read >>
| |  | German Pro Bono Initiatives
Spring 2007 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw's Frankfurt office has recently concluded a successful settlement for Trade Plus Aid® (see www.tradeplusaid.com), an English charity that aims, through the promotion of ethical trade, to alleviate poverty and assist disadvantaged communities throughout Africa and Asia to become self-sufficient. Read >>
| | | Into the Lands of the Pashtuns
Spring 2007 - The hospitality of the Pashtuns is said to be legendary. I was not to be disappointed during my travels through the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Wherever we went there was green tea, or a Pepsi. People would offer to slaughter a chicken, prepare dinner for us, even if they had very little to share. Read >>
| | | Teaching in Rural Tanzania
Spring 2007 - About her time in the village of Milingano, Sarah writes: I didn't really know what I would be letting myself in for when I signed up for a three-month teaching placement in Tanzania. I had a limited experience of children, and even less of teaching.
However, I had little doubt that it would be an experience of a lifetime, and that certainly proved true. I would never have imagined that I would be teaching classes of up to 160 (and survive to tell the tale!), coping without electricity, running water and other such western luxuries, or becoming so involved in local village life that I would be helping out on the farms and carrying water buckets on my head (or at least attempting to!). Read >>
| | | Chicago Lunch
Spring 2007 - Chicago Pro Bono Luncheon Takes on an International Flavor Read >>
| |  | Mayer Brown Participates In International Pro Bono Conference in Peru
31 March 2007 - The draft Pro Bono Declaration for the Americas was introduced to the Peruvian legal community at an international conference in Lima, Peru, on January 31 and February 1, 2007. Mayer Brown Assistant Director of Pro Bono Activities Marcia Maack and associate Georgina Fabian participated in the conference along with a delegation of lawyers from Argentina, Chile, Columbia, and the United States. Read >>
| | | Helping Young Women Workers in Ecuador
Spring 2006 - Lindsay McQuillian, a solicitor in the insurance and reinsurance litigation group in our London office (seen posing with two children in the left-most photo above), did what many others lawyers have probably only thought about: at the end of 2004 she took a career break and spent six months abroad doing volunteer work for a non-governmental, non-profit human services organization located in Quito, Ecuador. The organization is called CENIT, Centro de la Niña Trabajadora (Center for Young Women Workers), and is a streetbased project which, among many other objectives, seeks to lighten the burdens of local children who work on the street by providing them care and learning opportunities. Read >>
| | | Building Upon a Dream for a World Class Hospital in Nigeria
Spring 2006 - For more than 30 years, Chicago obstetrician Dr. Godwin Onyema has had a dream to return to Nigeria and create a world-class medical facility in his home state of Anambra, a region which is desperately poor and facing a growing health care crisis. Since immigrating to the U.S. in 1974, Dr. Onyema had been concerned about health care in his homeland. He regularly met informally with fellow physicians, conducted research into health care, and monitored Nigeria's volatile political situation. In 1999, Nigeria transitioned to a democratic government, allowing Dr. Onyema to accelerate his efforts. Read >>
| | | Mobility as a Philosophy
Spring 2006 - The Cambodia Trust was founded in 1989 to provide artificial limbs to Cambodia's thousands of land mine survivors-a common scourge in war-torn countries. In 1989 Cambodia, which is one of the poorest countries in the world, had just emerged from control by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, and the resultant "Killing Fields," leaving approximately ten million land mines throughout the country, and thousands of amputees. Read >>
| | | Archive Records Show CIA Knew Where Eichmann Was Hiding
6 june 2006, Washington, D.C. -- The CIA kept secret after learning the pseudonym and whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1958, according to documents declassified through the work of the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG). Read >>
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