IBJ India’s Awareness Campaigns Break Barriers in Prison
IBJ India continues to innovate new ways to deliver on its mission to protect human rights, including through its Legal Rights Awareness and Legal Aid Camp.
Raising Awareness to Prevent Torture in Burundi
76 grassroots communities in Mubimbi commit to passing on knowledge about the right not to be tortured On June 24, 2017, the Burundi Bridges to Justice (BBJ) team conducted a rights awareness event in...
Members of United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child Supports Declaration on Access to Justice to Prevent Torture
Geneva, Switzerland – On February 8, members of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) met with IBJ’s CEO and Founder, Karen Tse, and International Program Director Sanjeewa Liyanage to sign...
Press Release JusticeMakers 2017
The 2017 JusticeMakers Prevention of Torture Competition in Francophonie Africa Geneva, Switzerland – December 1, 2016 – Today, International Bridges to Justice (IBJ) is announcing the launch of its 2017 JusticeMakers Prevention of Torture Competition in...
Acquitted after 10 years in Jail
On August 3, 2004, in a remote commune situated in Kampong Thom province, Sry Veng’s family and their neighbors were sitting at home and quietly watching what was on TV that evening when three...
China’s major plan for reform includes increasing rights protections and reducing torture
On Friday, November 15, China released its decision on the future of nationwide reform, stemming from the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of China’s Communist Party. Among the positive changes foreseen by...
Torture in the name of treatment
Hundreds of thousands of people identified as drug users in China and across Southeast Asia are held without due process in centers where they may be subjected to torture, and physical and sexual violence...
Symposium Grass root protection of minority rightson
JusticeMakers Bangladesh – Advocate Shahanur Islam, Founding Secretary General Representing his newly established organization, JusticeMakers Bangladesh, Advocate Shahanur Islam discussed the organization’s target groups: ethnic, religious, social and sexual minorities, and victims of torture and extra‐judicial killings....
Sanjeewa Liyanage at Beijing Normal University: Can We End Torture in the 21st Century? Yes We Can!
November 9, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China – After attending the IBJ China staff retreat in Beijing, IBJ’s International Program Director Sanjeewa Liyanage took his final evening in China to give a lecture at...
Early Access to a Lawyer and the Prevention of Torture as an Investigative Tool
Cambodia ratified the UN Convention Against Torture over 18 years ago. Torture, however, remains the simplest and cheapest mechanism to extract a confession. Mr V is evidence that this practice is very much prevalent...