The Khmer Rouge, Security Prison 21, and the Progress of Cambodian Criminal Justice

With the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia now starting the process of prosecuting the top planners and directors of the Khmer Rouge atrocities, I thought it of utmost importance to visit Tuol...

Read more 28 May, 2008 at 11:12 am jkennel

Criminal Justice, Cambodian Naming, and First Photo Impressions of Phnom Penh

Greetings! I’m happy to be reporting from the Kingdom of Cambodia for IBJ. I’ll be here for the next few weeks and I look forward to giving you an “eyes on the ground” look...

Read more 27 May, 2008 at 9:36 am jkennel

Rwanda: Rights Advocacy Platform Launched

The New Times (Kigali) By Moses Gahigi International Bridges to Justice (IBJ), a Geneva-based firm, yesterday officially entered into a partnership with the Ministry of Justice and the Kigali Bar Association in a ceremony...

Read more 26 May, 2008 at 1:50 pm jyoder

IBJ Launches Training Workshop in Bujumbura, Burundi

Well, it’s been a week since I arrived and met African Program leader Marlon Zakeyo and IBJ Deputy Director Jean Amabile and officially began my internship working photojournalist for IBJ. I may lack a...

Read more 21 May, 2008 at 2:40 pm mharple

Brushing up on the Cambodian Criminal Procedure Code

On April 29, IBJ’s Cambodia office sponsored a training workshop for young criminal defense lawyers. IBJ Fellow Ouk Vandeth invited His Excellency Choun Sun Leng, Vice President of the Appeals Court and Chief of...

Read more 2 May, 2008 at 2:45 pm jerickson

Criminal law classes, terracotta warriors, and visions of the future in China

I have just returned from a week in China in my capacity as Deputy Director for International Bridges to Justice. IBJ has been working in China for the past five years training defenders and...

Read more 23 April, 2008 at 4:39 pm jamabile

Reflections on the Rwandan Genocide: 14 Years Later

As an intern at IBJ, I was lucky enough to be able to accompany the IBJ staff to the Commemoration of the Rwandan Genocide on April 7th, 2008 at the United Nations in Geneva....

Read more 23 April, 2008 at 9:53 am zgundogan

Robert E. Precht to launch IBJ’s Criminal Clinical Legal Education Project in China

IBJ is pleased to welcome Robert E. Precht to International Bridges to Justice as Project Director of the Criminal Clinical Legal Education Project, a new programming initiative of IBJ’s China Defender Program. The Criminal...

Read more 25 March, 2008 at 3:24 pm jyoder

From New York to Phnom Penh: Criminal Defense in Cambodia

As an IBJ volunteer, I have been accompanying IBJ Fellow Ouk Vandeth (see image below) as he travels to the provinces to advocate for his clients. These trips have really opened my eyes to...

Read more 21 March, 2008 at 10:32 am jerickson

IBJ Holds Region-wide Juvenile Defense Training in SW China

From January 14-16, 2008, IBJ held its first region-wide training seminar in Southwest China. Held in Chongqing in cooperation with the China Society of Juvenile Delinquency Research, an influential government agency responsible for researching...

Read more 21 January, 2008 at 5:30 pm jyoder