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...
After eight weeks of endless fundraising, the Skoll Social Entrepreneurs Challenge is finally over and we couldn’t be more excited about the results. With everyone’s support and donations, IBJ raised $126,218, coming in 6th place...
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...
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...
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...
This week, IBJ is embarking on an amazing journey. The Skoll Foundation and the Huffington Post has launched a six-week fundraising competition called The Social Entrepreneurs Challenge and IBJ is taking part. This opportunity is different because IBJ’s...
On Saturday 31st August, IBJ India conducted yet another successful legal awareness event in New Delhi’s Central Jail No.4 at Tihar Jail housing mostly undertrial prisoners. The purpose of the event was to raise...
Contributed by Raven Rakia IBJ JusticeMakers Fellow, Garima Tiwari and Documentary Journalist Fellow, Raven Rakia, visit the survivors, lawyers, and activists of The Bhopal Disaster, who are still fighting for justice. 3,800 died immediately....
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...
Awareness of legal rights in China, especially in the context of criminal justice, is largely uncharted. Thus any progress, no matter how seemingly insignificant, is valuable if only to discover one’s pitfalls. As the...
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...
Last week, Karen Tse, CEO and founder of International Bridges to Justice, made an important contribution to the discussion on how law enforcement and human rights can effectively coexist, at the World Justice Forum...
An IBJ partner attorney in China recently defended a 17 year old boy arrested on charges of attempted rape. The incident occurred while defendant Bingwen, whose real name has been altered to respect his...
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...
Indian JusticeMakers Fellow Garima Tiwari managed to bring lawyers and security staff together last month to discuss the existing legal framework for the accused living with HIV. Security officers, guards and lawyers gathered for...
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...
