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Tackling a Crisis That Hasn't Gone Away Tackling a crisis that hasn’t gone away A new pro bono collaboration to address the refugee crisis in Greece Trekking the Carpathian Mountains in Romania… …and a 20-year programme to overturn the institutionalisation of children Ten questions for… Jane Waters, COO in Johannesburg Transforming access to the world of work Smart Start celebrates ten years of raising standards of work experience for disadvantaged young people allenovery.com PRO BONO AND COMMUNITY INVESTMENT | ISSUE 05 | DEC 2019-MAY 2020 2 Increasing Access | Dec 2019-May 2020 © Allen & Overy LLP 2019 3 WELL-DESERVED RECOGNITION Foreword from Mark Mansell, plus A&O’s Pro Bono 04 and Community Investment Award winners 06 NEWS FROM THE NETWORK TACKLING A CRISIS THAT HASN’T GONE AWAY 10 A new pro bono collaboration to address the refugee crisis in Greece A SPACE TO BELONG TO 14 Providing higher education for asylum seekers TEN QUESTIONS FOR… 16 Jane Waters, COO of A&O’s Johannesburg office TRANSFORMING ACCESS TO THE WORLD OF WORK 18 Celebrating ten standout years of the Smart Start Experience MEET THE CHAMPIONS: JO HUGHES 24 Winner of A&O’s Outstanding Contribution Award 2019 AT THE HALFWAY POINT WITH HOPE AND HOMES FOR CHILDREN Trekking the Carpathian Mountains and witnessing the transformation 26 of the childcare system in Romania FRONT COVER: INSIDE COVER: A&O’S TEAM OF 17 STAFF AND ALUMNI TREKKING THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS IN ROMANIA THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS TO RAISE MONEY FOR HOPE AND HOMES FOR CHILDREN allenovery.com 4 Increasing Access | Dec 2019-May 2020 Giving well-deserved recognition I’ve known Jo Hughes for nearly 20 years, first as anniversary of Smart Start – our flagship work a Litigation associate then Senior Professional experience programme for young people from Support Lawyer, and now working together in low-income backgrounds. Smart Start has A&O’s Social Mobility Working Group. won multiple awards over the years but, most importantly, has helped 1,450 teenagers build ‘Social mobility’ is a term particular to the UK confidence in themselves and their futures. but an issue that every country faces: how to Read more from some of the people who’ve enable young people from disadvantaged and played a key role in its success on page 18. in many cases desperately poor backgrounds to break those cycles, access education and We also hear about two projects to support FRI 29TH & SAT 30TH careers and build better lives for themselves. refugees and asylum seekers – one on the MARCH 2019 Greek island of Lesvos, where a team of 12 It’s an issue that both Jo and I feel very A&O lawyers are joining a wider legal effort strongly about, so I’m proud that she has to help process more than 14,000 refugees received the Outstanding Contribution Award stranded in legal limbo; and another at in our London Pro Bono and Community Birkbeck, University of London, to give asylum Investment Awards this year, for two decades seekers access to higher education and a of work as both a mentor to young people and chance to build new lives in the UK. LUCK, BE A ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– an advocate for improving social mobility. TONIGHT! SOUVENIR–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– PROGRAMME Read Jo’s interview on page 24. Finally, we are halfway through our global charity partnership with Hope and Homes Another of our award winners, trainee Bethany for Children and are well on track to meet Gregory, has herself benefitted from social the GBP1 million fundraising target and mobility programmes, without which she says deliver our programme of pro bono support. she likely wouldn’t have got to this point in her Guys & Dolls Programme.indd 1 Read about a recent fundraising trek across career. Bethany – winner of the Trainee Award 25/03/2019 16:38 the Carpathian Mountains, and how the – is now a committed volunteer, working on charity has transformed a 50-year system citizenship and immigration cases in London and of institutionalising children in Romania, New York, as well as mentoring young people. on page 26. Our full list of award winners is on the next page. We launched these awards in London last year to give more recognition to the huge amount our people do every day to help the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in society Mark Mansell – and having piloted the awards in London, Partner, Co-Head of we’re hoping to help more offices launch Corporate Responsibility similar recognition schemes. I’ve been in this Tel +44 20 3088 3663 role for six years now and it still amazes me [email protected] how much work goes on, and the impact our teams make. PHOTOS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: JO HUGHES WITH Elsewhere in this issue, we’re marking the 10th SMARTER FUTURES MENTEES; ‘GUYS AND DOLLS’ PROGRAMME; HELEN TALKOWSKI AND CATHERINE HOWSON TREKKING THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS © Allen & Overy LLP 2019 5 WINNERS – A&O PRO BONO AND COMMUNITY INVESTMENT AWARDS 2019 Nominated by colleagues and selected by our Partner Committee, these are the winners of A&O’s London awards: Outstanding Contribution Award: Jo Hughes, Senior Professional Support Lawyer and Alumni Manager (see page 24) Access to Education and Employment Award: Cassie Austin- McKenzie, Cleuma Nascimento and Tina Alexander, all Legal PAs – for their long-term commitment to managing a rota of more than 30 volunteers who visit a local primary school in one of the most deprived parts of London to read with the children every week. Global Charity Partnership Award: Helen Talkowski, Legal PA – for her fundraising efforts to support Homes and Hope for Children. Helen helped stage an A&O production of ‘Guys and Dolls’ for four performances at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, with a cast and crew of over 60 staff and alumni, raising GBP29,000. She was also part of the team that trekked across the Carpathian mountains, raising nearly GBP47,000, and visited the charity’s work in Bucharest. Access to Justice Award: Robin Marshall, Associate – for helping to set up a programme of work with charity Z2K, mobilising a growing team of volunteers to appeal government decisions that deny thousands of people in the UK their disability payments. Read an interview with Robin in Issue 4 of Increasing Access – download it here. Trainee Award: Bethany Gregory – for volunteering at Coram Children’s Legal Centre, helping children achieve their right to British citizenship; working on immigration cases for victims of domestic violence in the U.S.; carrying out research in the field of human rights for several NGOs; and mentoring young people from low socio-economic backgrounds. Team Award: Naomi Briercliffe and Olga Owczarek (Senior Associates) and Sarah Morreau and Finnuala Meaden-Torbitt (Associates) – for supporting a complaint before the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights filed by Minority Rights Group (MRG) and the environmental organisation, ERND, on behalf of a community that has faced widespread discrimination and eviction, without compensation, from their traditional lands in central Africa. This core team has mobilised 75 people from six offices to support the ongoing case, so far volunteering nearly 1,300 hours. allenovery.com 6 Increasing Access | Dec 2019-May 2020 News from the network ACCESS TO SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RIGHTS IN CONFLICT ZONES New York partner Elaine Johnston has led a substantial piece of research for the Center for Reproductive Rights – an organisation that uses the law to advance these fundamental human rights around the world. “Nowhere is the need for sexual and reproductive health services more acute than in conflict settings.” Siri May, Senior Global Advocacy Advisor, ELAINE JOHNSTON, Center for Reproductive Rights PARTNER Conducted by 19 A&O lawyers from across in conflict settings, where rates of sexual and Saharan Africa,” Elaine says, “as well as more the U.S., UK and Europe, with associate Arpita gender-based violence increase exponentially. recently with Legal Action Worldwide to launch Ashok and pro bono lawyer Kristin Bong As well as being serious human rights violations a landmark case against the Government of coordinating the team, the research supports in their own right, women and girls can go on South Sudan for sexual violence against women.” a new area of work for the Center, focusing on to suffer long-term consequences, such as high access to sexual and reproductive health rights rates of unsafe abortion, miscarriage, premature in conflict zones – in particular whether effective labour and sexually transmitted infections – legal mechanisms exist to enforce those rights. all against a backdrop of disintegrating health A brighter future for systems, unsafe environments and fear of girls in rural Tanzania A&O’s report covered 14 countries across The impact of our partnership with Amref Health Africa three years on further violence for seeking care.” Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America and found that, while international and “The Center for Reproductive Rights is doing domestic legal mechanisms do exist to promote incredibly important work in this area,” says The growing need for free legal advice sexual and reproductive health rights, this Elaine. “We hope our report will help them to How A&O is plugging some of the gaps left by cuts to legal aid Ten questions for… accountability on paper is often at odds with the advocate for more effective protections and Beilqes Alzawm, human rights advisor, refugee and assistant in A&O’s Corporate practice prevalence of violations on the ground and the accountability mechanisms, and to engage with A weekend school for under-privileged children in Belgium experiences of the victims. government officials, other decision makers and NGOs in affected regions in pursuit of these goals. As Siri May, Senior Global Advocacy Advisor allenovery.com PRO BONO AND COMMUNITY INVESTMENT | ISSUE 04 | JUN-NOV 2019 at the Center for Reproductive Rights, “This research builds on work we’ve done with explains: “Nowhere is the need for sexual and Amref Health Africa to help advocate for better Read more about this work in Issue 4 reproductive health services more acute than sexual and reproductive health rights in sub- of Increasing Access – download it here.
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