Cambodia

NGO Coordination Workshop

In early June 2006, AIJI facilitated an NGO Coordination Workshop. The workshop brought a group of five international experts to Phnom Penh to discuss areas of coordination and cooperation amongst non-governmental organizations and civil society in their engagement with the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. The workshop succeeded in addressing some of the expectations of the NGO community regarding what was feasible and capable of being accomplished vis-à-vis their engagement with the court.

ECCC Training Workshops 2007

AIJI conducted a week-long training with the Defence Support Section at the ECCC in March 2007 and for the Office of the Co-Prosecutors in August 2007. The workshops brought together a number of legal experts from around the world. The aim of both workshops was to provide lawyers either working or likely to be working at the ECCC with an intensive overview of the law and jurisprudence relating to genocide, crimes against humanity and theories of liability under international law. There was an 100% attendance rate for the entire period of these trainings. Feedback from both the DSS and the OCP has been extremely positive, and AIJI continues to strengthen its relationship with both organs of the court.