I’m incredibly excited that one of my favorite organizations – International Bridges to Justice – has launched a TED talk by Founder & CEO, Karen Tse. IBJ is also featured as #3 on Huffington Post’s “Best of TED 2011 Countdown.” Take a few minutes to watch Karen’s talk below — and to join us in…
I was thrilled to find this TEDxZurich talk by Karen Tse, Founder and CEO of International Bridges to Justice (IBJ). I previously interned with IBJ and to this day, credit my time there for sparking my passion for access to justice issues. IBJ is an incredible and innovative organization that works to end torture worldwide…
In the past year, I’ve found myself increasingly focusing on women’s rights, sexual/gender-based violence issues, and the legal system in relation to protecting women’s rights. In large part, this is due to my volunteer work with JFAO, a rule of law organization providing legal services to women in Afghanistan. I can’t tell you how much…
My work with legal and access to justice non-profits has starkly highlighted to me the importance and necessity of holistic advocacy, and yet the unfortunate rarity of the practice. As I’ve written here before, holistic advocacy is simply the idea that social problems are all deeply interrelated and thus require service delivery non-profits to focus…
My inspiring story of the day (other than, you know, all the protests happening in Bahrain, Wisconsin, etc..) was about an innovative mobile gender justice court prosecuting perpetrators of sexual violence and rape in Congo. The court is trying eleven soldiers, responsible for a mass rape on New Year’s Day of dozens of women and…
This quote from an article I read a few weeks ago, “Making Good on the Girl Effect” truly stuck with me. It echoed thoughts that have been rattling around inside my brain for quite a while, but which never quite made it to the computer screen. We must globalize the local and localize the global….
