Author: mchinnappa
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Stitching Change: Labour, Gender and the Environment
As we mark World Environment Day 2025 under the global theme ‘Ending Plastic Pollution’, the Centre for Law and Transformative Change (CLTC) highlights the work of its partner, Munnade, a community-based organisation that has long championed labour rights of women garment workers. We must shift the spotlight to those who experience the worst consequences of…
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Upcoming Online Seminar
Fair Trial Rights & Trust-Building for People Who Use Drugs (PWUDs) 📅 Date: Thursday, 10 April 2025🕑 Time: 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM Bangkok Time🌐 Location: Online via Zoom🔗 Click here to register or scan the QR code below 🎯 Seminar Focus “Trust-Building Strategies When Assisting People Who Use Drugs Facing Criminal Charges” Join leading…
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Beyond punishment: Building a justice system in Cambodia that restores and empowers
The Centre for Law and Transformative Change (CLTC) has released its report, Gender-Responsive Sentencing Practices: Towards a Gender-Responsive Criminal Justice System in Cambodia, at a pivotal moment. As we commemorate 15 years of the Bangkok Rules, this year’s International Women’s Day theme, For All Women and Girls: Rights, Equality, Empowerment, highlights the pressing need to…
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Justice Within Reach: How the Mediation Act 2023 is transforming legal access in India
India’s justice system is at a breaking point. With over 50 million cases pending in courts, legal redress remains slow, expensive, and inaccessible for vast segments of the population, especially those historically and systematically excluded, such as Dalits, Adivasis, women, and informal workers. The enactment of the Mediation Act 2023 signals a transformative shift in…
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Legal Ethics in Action: Defending Rights in Wartime Ukraine
In the midst of conflict and turmoil, the role of defence lawyers in Ukraine is paramount. These legal professionals stand as guardians of human rights, bastions of justice, and upholders of ethical standards in times of adversity. Against the backdrop of wartime challenges, the Ethics in Action workshop for defence lawyers in Kyiv, organized by…
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Universal Periodic Submission on Access to Justice in Cambodia
In October 2023, the Centre for Law & Transformative Change (CLTC) and its partners submitted the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report on Access to Justice for Cambodia’s upcoming 4th cycle review. This collaborative effort by the ‘Coalition for Access to Justice’, comprising CLTC and leading Cambodian civil society organizations, aims to highlight the state of…
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Driving change from within: Cambodia’s Justice Network
Our collaborative journey with the Cambodian Justice Network continues to reshape the justice narrative in Cambodia. In a two-day workshop brimming with ideas and collaboration, CLTC brought together students from the College of Law, Australian National University, and members of the Cambodian justice network. Together, we tackled the pressing topic of addressing justice needs within…
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Enforced Disappearance: Impact, Inaction, and Activism – by Ram Bhandari
We share the article by CLTC’s transitional justice expert and researcher, Ram Bhandari who reflects on his own life journey when his father disappeared during the Nepalese conflict never to be heard again. He echoes the demands of thousands of families who want the State to uphold the right to truth, which is autonomous, independent,…
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The ASEAN Justice Innovation 2023: Rule of Law, Data, and the Future of Justice in ASEAN
CLTC extends its gratitude to the Thailand Justice Institute and its collaborator, the World Justice Project, for establishing the incredible platform, ‘The ASEAN Justice Innovation 2023: Rule of Law, Data, and the Future of Justice in ASEAN’. It allowed different organizations and individuals to come together and exchange narratives concerning innovative justice practices and encounters…
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From the Frontlines of Justice in Cambodia: Reflect, Rethink and Reinvest.
“Building a justice system is not a short-term exercise. To shift the punitive culture of our past requires commitment. Now is the most critical time to reinvest in justice so that we do not continue this culture into the next generation.” Meas Savath, Secretary-General, ADHOC, Cambodia.