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...
By Vinicius Haesbaert IBJ-Cambodia held a two-day event in Phnom Penh on September 25 and 26 with all staff, including lawyers, investigators and office administrators around the provinces. Charlène presents HR policies On the...
Contributed by Vinicius Haesbaert This is a special occasion for IBJ-Cambodia. On September 5th, we commemorated our 170th edition of Community Legal Education programs in the provinces in the country! The events started in...
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...
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...
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...
On Friday, 7th of June 2013, all twenty-two of the IBJ lawyers and investigators in Cambodia gathered in Phnom Penh for a training session organized by IBJ Cambodia and led by Denise Crawford and...
It is with heavy hearts that the IBJ family shares the news of the untimely death of a staff member, Houn Bunnith. Mr. Bunnith, a dedicated IBJ team member and father of three, was...