This week, IBJ is embarking on an amazing journey. The Skoll Foundation and the Huffington Post has launched a six-week fundraising competition called The Social Entrepreneurs Challenge and IBJ is taking part. This opportunity is different because IBJ’s...
On Saturday 31st August, IBJ India conducted yet another successful legal awareness event in New Delhi’s Central Jail No.4 at Tihar Jail housing mostly undertrial prisoners. The purpose of the event was to raise...
Contributed by Raven Rakia IBJ JusticeMakers Fellow, Garima Tiwari and Documentary Journalist Fellow, Raven Rakia, visit the survivors, lawyers, and activists of The Bhopal Disaster, who are still fighting for justice. 3,800 died immediately....
Sok (not his real name), a boyish-looking nineteen-year-old man, acted courageously by agreeing to be interviewed in IBJ’s Battambang office because this office is located inside the court complex where, just two months ago,...
A handful of prisoners in blue jumpsuits are playing a lazy game of volleyball in the hot sun in the center of the Pursat prison courtyard; another is cutting hair in a tiny shack...
Awareness of legal rights in China, especially in the context of criminal justice, is largely uncharted. Thus any progress, no matter how seemingly insignificant, is valuable if only to discover one’s pitfalls. As the...
Around 9 PM on November 24, 2012, Kosal, a nineteen-year-old motordup driver, was happy to receive a call on his cell phone from a man named Dara who was looking for a ride. Kosal...
Last week, Karen Tse, CEO and founder of International Bridges to Justice, made an important contribution to the discussion on how law enforcement and human rights can effectively coexist, at the World Justice Forum...
An IBJ partner attorney in China recently defended a 17 year old boy arrested on charges of attempted rape. The incident occurred while defendant Bingwen, whose real name has been altered to respect his...
Two years ago, Sophal (not his real name) and six of his friends became statistics in the Cambodian government’s crackdown on drug use, which targets young, often poor, Cambodians. At that time, Sophal was...
