MoProBono - Spring 2018 Update

19 MoProBono Spring 2018 Rights, a set of recommendations elucidating international standards on businesses’ responsibility to respect human rights and to mitigate corporate-related human rights harm within East Africa’s fast-growing economies. Corporate partners Oliver Rochman, associate Kritika Mohan, employment of counsel Annabel Gillham, and finance trainee solicitor Hannah Brellisford advised Emerge Poverty Free on its partnership with another UK charity, Send a Cow. Emerge Poverty Free works with partner organizations in East Africa to help people gain the tools, skills, and knowledge they need to lift themselves out of poverty. Finally, in our nation’s capital, partners Sean Ruff and Obrea Poindexter are advising Kiva on its operations in the United States. Kiva began as a platform to promote lending by members of the public to small entrepreneurs in developing countries and is now expanding its operations to the United States.