Currently, AIJI has a number of active projects in Southeast Asia. These include:
The KRT Monitoring and Community Outreach Program is a project run in close cooperation with international and Cambodian non-governmental organizations, working on post-conflict and victims’ rights issues related to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). The program successfully completed its coverage of the first trial at the ECCC in November 2009. Our team of court monitors (comprising lawyers and human rights advocates from Cambodia, Indonesia, Singapore, China, the Philippines, U.S.A., Germany and Switzerland) wrote weekly reports, and collaborated with a local film production company, Khmer Mekong Films, to produced the “Time for Justice” film series and a weekly television show about Case 001, called “Duch on Trial." We have now enlisted a new team of monitors in Phnom Penh (representing Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, U.S.A., Singapore, Taiwan, and Switzerland) to cover the proceedings in Case 002, against Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, and Khieu Samphan. Our team continues to produce written reports on the proceedings, in addition to our ongoing collaboration with KMF to produce a weekly television series about Case 002, “Facing Justice” and a companion call-in radio program that broadcasts nationally in Cambodia each week.
For more information about our KRT Monitoring Team, click here.
To read reports or view the television series AIJI co-produces with Khmer Mekong Films, please click here.
- Summer Institute in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
The Summer Institute in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Human Rights is a regionally based workshop held in partnership with organizations in Southeast Asia to consider key IHL and human rights issues, past and present, facing the region. Established in 2008, the Summer Institute is now in its fifth year of operation, having been co-hosted various years by partners based in Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore. The program is designed for participants working across a broad range of fields and disciplines and is best suited to those working within the Asia Pacific region, whose work has an Asia Pacific focus, or who wish to engage in comparative analysis regarding the application of IHL and human rights instruments as they apply in historical and political context of the region.
For more information about the Summer Institute, click here.