Interview with Vanessa Thomas (Decolonizing Wealth Project)
Decolonizing Wealth Project is focused on illuminating and providing healing from the harms caused by colonialism and white supremacy and
Karen Tse of International Bridges to Justice in conversation with Ray Suarez. Suspicious of foreign intervention and protective of power, governments have begun cracking down on foreign funding to civil society organizations, cutting off support for critical human rights groups in Russia, China, India, and beyond. A 10 minute extended version of this interview can be viewed here: • Karen Tse | The Rule of Law | Interna… Karen Tse, Skoll Awardee, founded International Bridges to Justice in 2000. An international human rights lawyer, ordained minister and former San Francisco public defender, Karen first developed her interest in the nexus of criminal law and human rights in 1986, after witnessing Southeast Asian refugees detained in a local prison without trial. In 1994, she moved to Cambodia to train the country’s first core group of public defenders and subsequently served as a United Nations Judicial Mentor. Karen formed IBJ after witnessing hundreds of prisoners of all ages being held without trials, usually after being tortured into making ‘confessions’. IBJ is creating the conditions for a “new normal in justice” in which citizens will have access to justice and ending the use of torture as an investigative tool. IBJ now has a presence in 48 countries, with permanent country programs in 11 countries. Over 18 years, IBJ has supported more than 30,000 lawyers and defenders who have represented more than 220,000 detainees. IBJ has also reached over 25 million people through rights awareness campaigns around the world. Working globally both on the ground and online, IBJ has an active online presence through Criminal DefenseWiki pages for 100+ countries and 152 eLearning modules for over 20 countries, with over 15 million hits for both platforms combined since its creation. Karen is a graduate of UCLA Law School and Harvard Divinity School. Among others, Karen is a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Innovation, the American Bar Association Human Rights Award and named as one of America’s best leaders by the US News and World Report.
Decolonizing Wealth Project is focused on illuminating and providing healing from the harms caused by colonialism and white supremacy and
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