By: Courtney Marie Skiles April 4, 2014 I rode next to IBJ India Duty Lawyer Shiv Kumar Dwivedi on the Delhi Bar Association bus that travels between the city’s courthouses. Shiv, who was lost in...
Back in 2006, eleven farmers in Takeo province were confronted by the head of the district who declared that he owns the land where they were farming and that it, in fact, belonged to...
In February 2013, Vanni (client’s name changed), a sixteen-year-old boy in Grade 6, his father and some of his relatives were fishing in lake Prek Phsout, Kampong Chhnang province. Before going fishing, they bought...
IBJ’s Defender Engagement Series (DES) trainer Ms. Wu has always had great sympathy for the poor and, in her own words, “long dreamed of becoming a lawyer.” Her initial interest arose from a desire...
On a cold December afternoon in Sichuan Province, Lian Jun, whose name has been altered to respect confidentiality, was taking the train to Xi’an. Police boarded the train to conduct an inspection. They discovered...
From the 04th to the 06th of October, IBJ India jointly conducted a three-day para-legal training in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. The training was conducted in collaboration with CHRI (Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative), State Legal Service...
by Charlène Buisson In 2010, a thief came into Mr. P’s house to rob him of 6,500,000 riels (about 1,625 USD) and beat him. The victim immediately went to the police post to file a...
By Daniel Ginetty At 6 p.m. on November 10, 2007, seventeen-year-old Sopaea finally lost his patience and stepped outside of his family’s apartment to confront his thirty-five-year-old neighbor, Karona, who had been taunting him...
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...
