IBJ seeks to end the use of torture and make it possible for defenders to do their jobs professionally, safely, and effectively. National programs in seven countries train defense lawyers, promote fairer justice systems, and educate the public about their legal rights. IBJ combines intense focus and custom training systems in strategically selected countries with more broadly available tools and resources shared and applied through a global network.
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A former public defender and ordained minister, Karen Tse moved to Cambodia in to train public defenders. Since then, governments throughout Asia, under pressure from human rights activists, have passed laws outlawing torture and providing citizens with basic rights, opening doors to develop criminal justice systems. Karen founded International Bridges to Justice IBJ in to promote local implementation of laws safeguarding citizen rights and to strengthen the critical, often neglected, defender side of the scale.
IBJ provides tools and other support to build the skills required for defenders of justice and human rights to perform their jobs professionally, safely, and with the greatest effect on the justice system. It accomplishes this through in-country programs, web based tools and training, and online community building.
At the time of the Award, IBJ had negotiated groundbreaking judicial reform measures with the governments of China, Vietnam, and Cambodia, and expanded programming to Rwanda, Burundi, and India. International Bridges to Justice.
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About the Organization Every day throughout the world, people are arbitrarily detained, tortured, and denied access to counsel and basic due process rights — causing untold human suffering, perpetuating patterns of violence and impunity, and sapping vast economic potential. Ambition for Change An end to the use of torture as an investigative tool.
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Path to Scale Build a Movement; Reform an Existing System IBJ combines intense focus and custom training systems in strategically selected countries with more broadly available tools and resources shared and applied through a global network. Skoll Awardee Karen Tse. The organization's stated mission is "to protect the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries by guaranteeing all citizens the right to competent legal representation, the right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment, and the right to a fair trial". IBJ was founded in by former public defender Karen I.
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IBJ only works in countries whose international treaty obligations and national laws have already laid the legal framework for the protection of their citizens and where a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed with the relevant government and legal authorities, setting out the parameters under which IBJ will work. IBJ adopts a three pillar approach to accomplishing its aims: IBJ's main method of furthering its aim of criminal justice reform is through training public defenders, or legal aid lawyers, in countries throughout the developing world.
IBJ has developed a range of interactive criminal defense trainings, which include international best practices, specific hypothetical situations and country-specific legal informational and case studies. IBJ recruits emerging lawyers in the field of human rights to work in Defender Resource Centers in their respective countries, which serve as the basic infrastructure for programming, as well as the support and resource hub for local defenders and neutral meeting ground for dialogue between judicial stakeholders.
JusticeMakers is an online community created by IBJ to share information and best practice models in different criminal justice systems.
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The JusticeMakers program hosts an annual criminal justice innovation competition that awards project funding to grassroots legal rights projects in communities around the world. The IBJ Legal Training Resource Center is aimed at increasing public defender capacity worldwide through the creation of on-demand web-based eLearning courses.