Reinforcing the protection for, and the individual dignity of, people facing criminal prosecution in developing and transitional countries
Heng Lay Him, 20, comes from a humble farming family in Prey Veng Province. On 11 November 2011, he was charged with murder. At the age of seventeen, Lay Him left school in grade seven to start work as a truck driver. His father had sold most of the family’s rice fields, squandering away the profits [...]
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During Karen’s recent trip to Cambodia we spent an afternoon in Kandal prison with the purpose of meeting all the female and juvenile prisoners. It was a privilege to visit Kandal prison with both Karen and Vandeth, a place Karen first worked back in 1994. There were some shocking tales as well as some stories [...]
Source: | Kflower
and Nastasia Bach Karen Tse, IBJ’s founder and CEO, and Daniel R. Fung, Chair of the Board of Directors, travelled to Cambodia to meet with the IBJ staff to collaborate and improve skills. On April 7, 2012 eight lawyers and five investigators met at the IBJ office in Phnom Penh. The day was divided into [...]
Source: | Kflower
IBJ’s National Defender Resource Center in Beijing is in the process of expanding library access for China defenders and IBJ trainers, through a law book donation drive and a bilingual library system for ready access to its legal resources. Since January, IBJ has solicited and received legal resource donations from the U.S. and Hong Kong [...]
Source: | sgokhal
This past weekend, approximately 55 defense attorneys from Changsha, Hunan Province gathered on the premises of Hunan University’s School of Law to participate in an interactive training with both Chinese experts and IBJ foreign legal professionals. Located just steps away from one of China’s four ancient institutes, the Yuelu Academy, the location provided the perfect [...]
Source: | Abewicke
For the past two weeks I have had the fortunate experience of working alongside the International Bridges to Justice (IBJ) team in Rattanakiri, a remote province in far north-eastern Cambodia. I have seen a lot that words simply cannot describe. On Thursday at around 3pm IBJ’s lawyer, Mr Sary, received a phone call from the [...]
Source: | Kflower
and Nastasia Bach On 20 and 21 March 2012, International Bridges to Justice (IBJ) held two legal rights awareness events on Cambodia’s Criminal Procedure and Penal Code in Takeo Province. The two events brought together 100 Cambodian citizens eager to learn about their legal rights. At each event Mr. Kin Vibol, IBJ’s provincial lawyer in [...]
Source: | Kflower
