Contact Information for Legal Assistance Resources

Summary: This forms part of the Legal Assistance Toolkit for Children and Children's Rights Organisations. This section below is an annex. A link to the full guide in pdf format complete with the text of relevant international standards is available further down, as well as links to all chapters.

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Legal Networks / International Pro Bono Clearinghouses / International Pro Bono Organisations / National Pro Bono Clearinghouses and Resources

 Legal Networks

International

International Bar Association (IBA)
4th Floor, 10 St Bride Street
London, EC4A 4AD
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 207 842 0090
Fax: +44 (0) 207 842 0091
http://www.ibanet.org/

Human Rights Institute: http://www.ibanet.org/IBAHRI.aspx
Global list of IBA national and local bar association members
: http://www.ibanet.org/Document/Default.aspx?DocumentUid=25834764-545A-44BA-9B82-6D326AE46997

Regional

ASEAN Law Association
ALA Secretariat
c/o 2/104 Doi Can Street, Ba Dinh District
Hanoi
Vietnam
Tel: +84 4 3 7225897
Fax: +84 4 3 7225896
http://www.aseanlawassociation.org/index.html
[email protected]

CEJIL: Center for Justice and International Law
630 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 401
Washington, D.C. 20009-1053
USA
Tel: +1 (202) 319-3000
Fax: +1 (202) 319-3019
http://cejil.org/en

http://cejil.org/en/contact

Pro Bono Guide, including directory of organisations offering free counseling services, legal assistance or representation in the Inter-American Human Rights system:
http://cejil.org/en/pro-bono-guide

Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA)
949 Brusubi Layout, AU Summit Highway
P.O. Box 1896
Banjul
The Gambia
Tel: +220 44 10 413/4
Fax: +220 44 10 201
http://www.ihrda.org/

Legal Defence Fund
: http://www.ihrda.org/legal-defence-fund/
[email protected]

Southern Africa Litigation Centre
President Place
1 Hood Avenue/ 148 Jan Smuts Avenue
Rosebank
Johannesburg
South Africa 2196
Tel: +27 (0) 11 587 5000
Fax: +27 (0) 11 587 5099
http://www.southernafricalitigationcentre.org/
[email protected]

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International Pro Bono Clearinghouses

Advocates for International Development
24th Floor, The Broadgate Tower, 20 Primrose Street
London EC2A 2RS
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 203 116 2798
http://www.a4id.org/
[email protected]

i-Probono
35 Vine Street
London EC3N 2AA
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 207 861 6728
http://www.i-probono.com/index.aspx
http://www.i-probono.com/contactus.aspx

PILnet: The Global Network for Public Interest Law
Paulay Ede utca 50
H–1061 Budapest
Hungary
Tel: +36 (1) 461-5700
Fax: +36 (1) 461-5701
http://www.pilnet.org/
[email protected]

Global Clearinghouse:
[email protected]

TrustLaw Connect
TrustLaw Thomson Reuters Foundation
30 South Colonnade
London E14 5EP
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 207 542 9484
http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/connect/

[email protected]

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International Pro Bono Organisations

Ashoka: Law for All Initiative
1700 North Moore Street
Suite 2000 (20th Floor)
Arlington, VA 22209
USA
Tel: +1 (703) 527-8300
Fax: +1 (703) 527-8383
https://www.ashoka.org/lawforall

[email protected]

Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice (projects in the Americas and Africa)
New York City Bar
42 West 44th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10036
USA
Tel: +1 (212) 382.6795
Fax: +1 (212) 768.8630
http://www2.nycbar.org/citybarjusticecenter/vance-center/programs

[email protected]

International Senior Lawyers Project
c/o Clifford Chance US LLP
31 W. 52nd Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10019
USA
Tel: +1 (212) 895-1022
http://www.islp.org

http://kontactr.com/user/islpform

Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation
2001 K Street, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20006-1040
USA
Tel: +1 (202) 429-1630
Fax: +1 (202) 857.1737
http://www.lexmundiprobono.org/lexmundiprobono/default.asp

Pro Bono Institute
1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 205
Washington, DC 20036
USA
Tel: +1 (202) 729-6699
http://www.probonoinst.org/home.html

http://www.probonoinst.org/contact-us.html

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National Pro Bono Clearinghouses and Resources

Argentina
La Comisi
ón Pro Bono
Comisión de Trabajo Pro Bono e Interés Público

Montevideo 640
Ciudad Autonoma de Bs. As. (C1019ABN)
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Tel: +15 5486 6904
http://www.probono.org.ar/

[email protected]

Australia
ACT Pro Bono Clearing House
Level 3, 11 London Circuit
Canberra City ACT 2601

Australia
Tel: +61 (02) 6247 5700
Fax: +61 (02) 6247 3754
http://www.actlawsociety.asn.au/act-pro-bono-clearing-house.html

http://www.actlawsociety.asn.au/contact-us/act-law-society.html

JusticeNet
Ligertwood Building, The University of Adelaide
North Tce, Adelaide SA 5005
Australia
Tel: +61 (08) 8303 5005
Fax: +61 (08) 8303 4344
http://www.justicenet.org.au/index.html

[email protected]

New South Wales
Law Society of New South Wales
The Pro Bono Scheme Solicitor
170 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
Tel: +61 (02) 9926 0364
Fax: +61 (02) 9231 5809
http://www.lawsociety.asn.au/pro-bono-scheme

Northern Territory
Pro Bono Clearing House (NT)

Suite 2, Ground Floor
Beagle House
38 Mitchell Street
Darwin NT 0800
Australia
Tel: +61 (08) 8941 1623
http://lawsocietynt.asn.au/for-the-community/pro-bono-clearing-house

[email protected]

Queensland
Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House (QPILCH)
PO Box 3631
South Brisbane BC, QLD 4101
Australia
Tel: +61 (07) 3846 6317
Fax: +61 (07) 3846 6311
http://www.qpilch.org.au/
[email protected]

Tasmania
Law Society of Tasmania Pro Bono Clearing House

28 Murray Street
Hobart, Tasmania 7000
Australia
Tel: +61 (03) 6234 4133
Fax: +61 (03) 6223 8240
http://taslawsociety.asn.au/web/en/lawsociety/about/ProBono.html

[email protected]

Victoria
Public Interest Law Clearing House
Level 17, 461 Bourke St.
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia
Tel: +61 (03) 8636 4405
Fax: +61 (03) 8636 4455
http://www.pilch.org.au/

[email protected]

Resources
National Pro Bono Resource Centre
Level 1, Law Centres Precinct
The Law Building
University of New South Wales
Australia
Tel:+61 (02) 9385 73
http://www.nationalprobono.org.au/home.asp

[email protected]

Brazil
ConectasDireitosHumanos

Rua Barão de Itapetininga, 93 - 5º andar - 01042-908
São Paulo
Brasil
Tel/Fax: +55 11 3884-7440
http://www.conectas.org/

[email protected]

Instituto Pro Bono
Rua Barão de Itapetininga, 93 – 5
° andar, CEP 01042-908
São Paulo

Brasil
Tel/Fax: +55 11 3884-7440
http://www.institutoprobono.org.br
[email protected]

Bulgaria
Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law*

6 Dobrudja Str.
Sofia 1000
Bulgaria
Тel: + 3592 981 66 17
Tel./Fax: + 3592 988 81 66
http://www.bcnl.org/
[email protected]

*clearinghouse to be launched soon

Canada
Resources
Pro Bono Net
151 West 30th Street
10th Floor
New York, NY 10001
USA
Tel: +1 (212) 760-2554
Fax: +1 (212) 760-2557
http://www.probono.net/

[email protected]

Alberta
Pro Bono Law Alberta
http://www.pbla.ca/

British Columbia
Access Pro Bono Society of British Columbia
106 – 873 Beatty Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6B 2M6
Tel: +1 (604) 482 3195
Fax: +1 (604) 893 8934
http://accessprobono.ca/contact-apb
[email protected]

Ontario
Pro Bono Law Ontario
260 Adelaide Street East
P.O. Box 102
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5A 1N1
Tel: +1 (416) 977-4448
Fax: +1 (416) 977-6668
http://www.pblo.org/

[email protected]

Quebec
Pro Bono Quebec
C.P. 55043, CSP Notre-Dame
11, rue Notre-Dame Ouest
Montréal, Québec H2Y 4A7
Canada
Tel : +1 (514) 954-3434
Fax: +1 (514) 954-3427
http://www.probonoquebec.ca/

[email protected]

Saskatchewan
Pro Bono Law Saskatchewan
Avord Tower
1110-2002 Victoria Ave
Regina, Saskatchewan
Canada S4P 0R7
Tel: +1 (306) 569-3098
Fax: +1 (306) 352-2989
http://www.pblsask.ca/
[email protected]

Chile
Fundaci
ón Pro Bono Chile
Tel: +56 2 381-5660
http://www.probono.cl/
[email protected]

China
PILnet Beijing Clearinghouse
19 Jianguomenwai Dajie, Suite 10-C
Beijing 100004
China
Tel: +86 (10) 8526-1453/4
Fax: +86 (10) 8526-1455

Colombia
Fundación Pro Bono Colombia
Tel: +57 1 288 04 11 ext. 113-115
http://www.probono.org.co/
[email protected]

Czech Republic
Public Interest Lawyers Association

Pro Bono Alliance / Pro Bono Centrum
Příběnická 1908, 390 01
Tábor
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 381 253 990
http://www.probonoaliance.cz/cz/
/ http://www.probonocentrum.cz/
[email protected]

France
Alliance Des Avocats Pour Les Droits De L'Homme (Alliance of Lawyers for Human Rights)

7, rue d’Assas
75006
Paris
France
Tel: +33 (0) 6 27 22 72 38

http://www.aadh.fr/
[email protected]

Resources
Droits d'Urgence
1, Passage du Buisson Saint-Louis
75010 Paris
France
Tel: +33 (0) 1 40 03 62 82
Fax: +33 (0) 1 40 03 62 56

http://www.droitsdurgence.org/
[email protected]

Hungary
PILnet Budapest Clearinghouse
Paulay Ede utca 50
1061 Budapest, Hungary
Tel: +36 1 461 5700
Fax: +36 1 461 5701

Ireland
FLAC Public Interest Law Alliance

13 Lower Dorset Street
Dublin 1
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 8728048
Fax: +353 1 8745320
http://www.pila.ie/
[email protected]

Latvia
Latvian Pro Bono Legal Clearinghouse
Marijas St. 88 - 5

Riga LV-1050
Latvia
Tel: +371 67294646
http://www.idejupartneri.lv/
[email protected]

Poland
Centrum Pro Bono
ul. Szpitalna 5 lok. 5
00-031 Warszawa
Poland
Tel: +48 505 690 408
http://www.centrumprobono.pl/pl/
[email protected]

Romania
Civil Society Development Foundation*
Orzari St., no 86A, sector 2

Bucharest
Romania
Tel: +4 (0) 21-310-01-81
Fax: +4 (0) 21-310-0180
http://www.fdsc.ro/
[email protected]

*clearinghouse to be launched soon

Russia
PILnet Moscow Clearinghouse
Maroseyka str., 9/2 build. 8, office 34
101000 Moscow
Russia
Tel: +7 (495) 628 00 20
Fax: +7 (495) 661 49 21

Serbia
Civic Initatives
Simina 9a.

11 000 Beograd
Serbia
Tel: +381 11 3374 129
http://www.gradjanske.org/page/home/sr.html
[email protected]

Slovakia
Pontis Foundation/ Nad
ácia Pontis
Zelinárska 2
821 08 Bratislava
Slovak Republic
Tel: +421 (2) 5710 8111
Fax: +421 (2) 5710 8125
http://www.nadaciapontis.sk/sk/
[email protected]

Slovenia
Peace Institute
Metelkova ulica 6
1000 Ljubljana

Slovenia
Tel: +386 (0)1 234 77 20
Fax: +386 (0)1 234 77 22
http://www2.arnes.si/~ljmiri1s/eindex.htm
[email protected]

South Africa
Probono-org
1st Floor West Wing

Women’s Jail
Constitution Hill
1 Kotze Street
Braamfontein
Johannesburg
South Africa
Tel: +27 11 339 6080
Fax: +27 11 339 6077
http://www.probono.org.za/

[email protected]

Resources:
Centre for Child Law
Faculty of Law
Law Building (Room 4-31)
University of Pretoria
Pretoria 0002
South Africa
Tel: +27 12 420 4502
Fax: +27 12 420 4499
http://www.centreforchildlaw.co.za/

[email protected]

Legal Resources Centre
15th and 16th Floor, Bram Fischer Towers
20 Albert Street
Marshalltown
P O Box 9495
Johannesburg 2000
Tel: +27 11 836 9831
Fax: +27 11 834 4273
http://www.lrc.org.za/
http://www.lrc.org.za/contact-us/21-head-office/1-national-office

Turkey
Istanbul Bilgi University
Kurtuluş Deresi Cad.

Yahya Köprüsü Sok. No:1
Dolapdere 34440
Beyoğlu-İstanbul
Turkey
Tel: + 90 212 444 0 428
http://www.bilgi.edu.tr/
[email protected]

United Kingdom
Bar Pro Bono Unit
The National Pro Bono Centre
48 Chancery Lane
London WC2A 1JF
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7092 3960
http://www.barprobono.org.uk/

[email protected]

LawWorks
c/o
National Pro Bono Centre
48 Chancery Lane
London WC2A 1JF
UK
Tel +44 (0)20 7092 3940
Fax +44 (0)20 7242 3407

http://www.lawworks.org.uk/

http://www.lawworks.org.uk/contact-us

National Pro Bono Centre
48 Chancery Lane
London WC2A 1JF
UK
http://www.nationalprobonocentre.org.uk/
[email protected]

Scotland
LawWorks Scotland

c/o The Law Society
26 Drumsheugh Gardens
Edinburgh EH3 7YR
UK
Tel: +44 (
0)131 226 8895
http://www.lawworksscotland.org.uk/
[email protected]

Resources
ILEX Pro Bono Forum
The Institute of Legal Executives

Kempston Manor
Kempston Bedford MK42 7AB
UK
Tel: +44(0)1234 845763
http://www.ilex.org.uk/about_cilex/pro_bono.aspx

[email protected]

ProBonoUK.net
http://probonouk.net/
[email protected]

United States
American Bar Association Standing Committee on Pro Bono & Public Service

c/o American Bar Association
Center for Pro Bono
321 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60654
Fax: +1 (312) 988-5483
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/probono_public_service.html
[email protected]

Consumers's Guide to Legal Help by state:

http://apps.americanbar.org/legalservices/findlegalhelp/home.cfm
Directory of Pro Bono Programs by state, including clearinghouses, legal aid, and other volunteer and public interest lawyer organisations:

http://apps.americanbar.org/legalservices/probono/directory.html#
List of state and local bar associations in the U.S.:
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/bar_services/resources/state_local_bar_associations.html

Resources
Pro Bono Net / LawHelp
151 West 30th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10001
USA
Tel: +1 (212) 760-2554
Fax: +1 (212) 760-2557
http://www.probono.net/
/ http://www.lawhelp.org/
[email protected]
/ [email protected]

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