by Wendy | Oct 13, 2012 | Externship Page, Thailand
By Ellen Rehnberg, Mount Holyoke College, USA It probably will not surprise anyone to learn that there is a large number of transgendered people in Thailand. What is surprising is the amount of discrimination they face. I did not know this when I first started working...
by Wendy | Oct 13, 2012 | Cambodia, International, Thailand, Vietnam
By Ed O’Brien, Executive Director Emeritus, Street Law Inc. Thirteen Years ago a young lawyer named Bruce Lasky called from Florida and said, “I am going to Cambodia and I want to learn about your Street Law program.” Fittingly, we agreed to meet for dinner at a...
by Wendy | Oct 13, 2012 | Externship Page, International, Thailand
By Ellen Rehnberg, Mount Holyoke College, USA Pre-trial detention — a term I had heard often, but never fully understood, until we started Professor Doug Colbert’s Pre-trial Detention Initiative project. All the BABSEACLE interns were introduced to this...
by Wendy | Oct 13, 2012 | International, Regional, Vietnam
National Economics University CLE Cinic in Hanoi to Develop a Small Business Clinic by Tue Phuong Nguyen, BABSEACLE Volunteer Lawyer, Hanoi, Viet Nam National Economics University (NEU) has been working with BABSEACLE as part of the network of CLE programs in Viet Nam...
by Wendy | Oct 13, 2012 | Regional, Vietnam
by Trang Tran Le (Ivy), BABSEACLE Staff Trainer “Poverty can only be reduced if governments give all citizens, especially the poor, a legitimate stake in the protections provided by the legal system, which should not be the privilege of the few but the right of...
