DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 21, 2016 — International Bridges to Justice (IBJ) has hosted its annual “Interfaith Peace Vigil” on Wednesday, January 20th at the Herz-Jesu Kirche in Davos, during the World Economic Forum 2016....
Kampong Speu is not an easy place to live. A remote, agriculturally dependent province, it has been suffering from a serious drought for many years. As a result, residents have been seeking new ways...
Sok Chea is sixty years old, and lives in small house in a remote village in between Takeo and Kampot. In his younger days he worked as a barber, but age has made him frail...
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...
Over 200 Inmates Attend IBJ India’s Legal Rights Awareness Event at Tihar Jail As a part of a joint initiative between IBJ India and Delhi Prisons to spread awareness among jail inmates about their rights and...
Taking Care of the Caretakers: Custodial Staff Capacity Building Workshop at Tihar Pankhuri A. Mehndiratta and Katyayini, IBJ India IBJ India in collaboration with Delhi Prisons organized a two-day capacity building workshop for warders...
For Immediate Release IBJ Announces Its ASEAN Youth JusticeMakers Competition 2015 Geneva, Switzerland – April 2, 2015 – IBJ Singapore is pleased to announce the ASEAN Youth JusticeMakers 2015 Competition. The Competition will award US$5,000...
February 2015 Pich Sreymom* is an 18 year old girl who was accused of being accomplice to a motorbike theft. Without the means to pay for counsel, she was afraid that her past imprisonment...
June 2014 Kelly McCarthy IBJ China Seeks to Improve Defense Strategies for Accused Women & Girls Domestic violence is, unfortunately, not a new or uncommon problem in China, but the issue has gained unprecedented social...
The Wall Street Journal By Hannah Bloch February 2015 Originally published by The Wall Street Journal When Karen Tse, a San Francisco public defender, arrived in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia to train defense lawyers in 1994,...
In Burundi, the number of children in pre-trial detention is steadily decreasing. However, it is necessary to maintain this momentum and continue the fight against illegal juvenile detention. The story of Celeus exemplifies the...
Charlène Buisson 17 September 2014 On September 17, 2014, we went to Prey Veng province to visit Theara, a former IBJ client recently released after being acquitted. Theara’s house is only 40 kilometers away...
Pankhuri A. Mehndiratta and Katyayini October 2014 IBJ India organized a two-day paralegal training for the convicts at the Central Jail, Ajmer on the 4th and 5th of October 2014. The workshop aimed at building capacity...
Charlène Buisson December 2014 On December 9, 2014 Sophal and his wife Thea, parents of three children, have been released from prison. They are very happy about their discharge and being able to see...
Pankhuri A. Mehndiratta December 2014 On December 4, 2014 the IBJ India team visited Central Tihar Jail No. 6 in New Delhi to interact with jail inmates and conduct a Legal Awareness Camp inside...
Pankhuri A. Mehndiratta September 2014 On the 1st of June 2014, IBJ India organised a one day workshop dealing with the contentious issue of ‘Custodial Violence – its Prevention and Remedies‘ in the state...
IBJ’s program in India kicked off in 2008 with an International Criminal Defense Training in New Delhi. Four Supreme Court justices including the Chief Justice and 16 High Court judges and over 130 Indian...
Since the establishment of the IBJ Rwanda Program in 2010, IBJ has been building partnerships with the Ministry of Justice, the Prosecutor General’s Office, and the Kigali Bar Association (KBA). To create a climate...
“IBJ, my mentor and friend in my growth as a defense lawyer” Although IBJ’s Defender Resource Center in Northwest China has only been operating for three years, there have already been notable improvements...
IBJ maintains three offices in China, the National Defender Resource Center (NDRC) in Beijing, the Southeast Defender Resource Center (SEDRC) in Wuhan, Hubei Province, and the Northwest Defender Resource Center (NWDRC) in Xi’an,...
