Mrs. Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy and founder of the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights, here in the classic Khmer krama to symbolize her stance of solidarity with Cambodian human rights defenders (Wash. DC, March 2011).
Co-founder of NomiNetwork ("Leveraging the Marketplace to Eradicate Sexual Slavery") Diana Mao of Washington, DC / New York City when she's not speaking at conferences around the world, elegant in classical krama holds a product made by survivors of sexual slavery (Dec. 2010). Theary Seng's interview with NomiNetwork.
Kerry Kennedy, the defender-in-chief of human rights defenders around the world, here donning the classic krama at the play of Speak Truth To Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark at Pannasastra University of Cambodia (Phnom Penh, 24 Feb. 2011). Not only a well-liked, well-respected personality of the public realm, but a genuinely great person, whom I am honored to know.
ECCC civil party, environmental activist, Olympian rower Rob Hamill donning the classic Khmer krama at a race in Coromandal township (New Zealand, 17 April 2011)
Sivnin Eam (the meticulous, thoughtful, hard-working Executive Assistant of CIVICUS: Center for Cambodian Civic Education) and Sotheary Yim (far left), here as CSD staff both beautifully garlanded in their kramas in a crowd of human rights defenders from all over Cambodia celebrating International Human Rights Day, 10 Dec. 2008 at Wat Botum Park, Phnom Penh)
Villagers hold aloft a 230-metre krama yesterday (20 Dec. 2011) during their protest in front of the National Assembly. (Photo by: Pha Lina)
Villagers and activists demonstrating against the draft NGO Law, Dec. 2011
Human rights defenders celebrating International Human Rights Day, 10 Dec. 2010, in the classic kramas, Phnom Penh.
In Oslo to celebrate the awarding of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines are: in front, Tun Channareth of the Cambodian Campaign to Ban Landmines, and behind him from left to right, Dr. James Cobey, who documented civilian casualties of landmines in Cambodia, Physicians for Human Rights Director of Communications Barbara Ayotte, and Liz Bernstein, former ICBL coordinator. PHR shared the prize as a founding member of the ICBL.
Somaly Mam, advocate to free girls from sexual slavery (Photo: Michael Angelo).
My staff at CSD after the National Conference on Justice & Reconciliation, all in their kramas, the uniform for the forum (Phnom Penh, 28 Nov. 2008).
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Human Rights, Not So Pure Anymore
Samuel Moyn
The International Herald Tribune, 12 May 2012
THE international commotion around the blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng aroused memories of earlier dissidents like Andrei D. Sakharov and Aleksandr I. Sol [ ... ]
More photos of when I was in Thmor Bang District
with HE Son Chhay, Mardi Seng, Emily and Phirum Keo
one week before Chut Wutty was gunned down in the same area
(Photos: Emily Keo, April 2012)
Waiting at Thmor Bang (where there's limited electricity ph [ ... ]
