Dr. Joan LaRovere Named One of Newsweek’s 150 Women Who Shake the World

Dr. Joan LaRovere Named One of Newsweek’s 150 Women Who Shake the World

Congratulations to Virtue Foundation’s Co-Founder and Vice President, Dr. Joan LaRovere, for making Newsweek’s prestigious list of 150 Women Who Shake the World. We celebrate Joan for her inspiring efforts as a medical professional, humanitarian, and global advocate for women and children.

The Role of the Judiciary in Protecting Human Rights & Advancing Justice in Ghana

Virtue Foundation in partnership with the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School, the NYU Africa House, and the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on African Affairs, is pleased to announce a lecture by Ghana’s first woman Supreme Court Chief Justice, Her Ladyship Georgina Theodora Wood. Chief Justice Wood is…

Legal and health professionals issue first comparative study of acid violence against women in Bangladesh, India, and Cambodia

Legal and health professionals issue first comparative study of acid violence against women in Bangladesh, India, and Cambodia

Avon Global Center and Cornell Law Clinic join with New York City Bar Association and Virtue Foundation to recommend concrete steps governments and businesses can take to combat acid violence, a horrific form of violence committed against women in many countries New York, New York. Attackers have thrown acid on the faces and bodies of…

Combating Acid Violence in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India

Launch event: In January 2011, Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School, the Committee on International Human Rights of the New York City Bar Association, the Cornell Law School International Human Rights Clinic and Virtue Foundation released a new report that examines acid attacks in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India. Acid violence…