Former Monitors

 

Alvin YAP is a Singaporean intern-monitor who recently graduated from the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He was part of the team that represented Singapore at the 2012 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, after winning the Singapore National Round of the competition. He completed a research paper under the guidance of Prof. Simon Chesterman on the topic of sexual violence against men during armed conflicts.

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Cess PRINCIPE is a Filipino lawyer who received her degree from the University of the Philippines.  Prior to bring a lead monitor of Case 002, Cess worked as a private practitioner litigating cases relating to women and children’s rights.

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 Chayanich THAMPARIPATTRA is a Thai lawyer who received her Bachelor of Laws from Thammasat University.  Chayanich has also studied the Australian legal system through an exchange program at the University of Queensland. Before coming to Cambodia, she spent more than two years as a consultant on International Labor Standards and Labor Laws for the International Labour Organization, during which, she also volunteered for local trade unions.

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Flavia WIDMER is a Swiss trial monitor who studied law at the Universities of Zürich and Neuchâtel, Switzerland. She graduated in 2011 with a Master of Laws degree. In 2008, Flavia spent one semester at the Chicago-Kent College of Law’s exchange program, focusing on International and Comparative Law (half of the LLM program). During her studies and shortly after, she worked for different business law firms in Zürich, Switzerland.

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 Juan Pablo STEIN is an intern-monitor who received his degree in International Relations (focusing on international law and development economics) from the Catholic University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. During his studies and after, he worked with leading regional finance teams of multinational companies, including Accenture and Microsoft.

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Kounila KEO is a Khmer monitor with a degree in Media and Communication from the Royal University of Phnom Penh.  She has been freelancing for Agence France Presse since 2009 and had worked as BBC Media Action’s Digital Manager.  When is she is not monitoring and writing news reports, she blogs about social issues and everything Cambodian at www.blueladyblog.com. A blogger since 2007, Kounila conducts workshops on social media for university students, artists and professionals.

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 Leang SOK is a Cambodian translator-monitor.  He has worked in the field of human rights with the Center for Justice and Reconciliation and the Center for Social Development, focusing on victims’ participation at the ECCC, as well as healing and reconciliation processes through transitional justice mechanisms.  He is currently a part-time lecturer of Cultural Anthropology at Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia. Leang has also been a professional translator/interpreter in local and international conferences in the country and abroad for the past six years.

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Mary Kristerie A. BALEVA is a Filipino lawyer who serves as AIJI’s Head of Programs for Cambodia.  She oversees the Khmer Rouge Tribunal Trial Monitoring and Community Outreach Program, as well as the in-country Legal and Content Development Team of the Virtual Tribunal of the ECCC, a collaborative project between the ECCC, EWC, WCSC, and the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.  Kris studied at the University of the Philippines, where she received the Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence. In 2009, she obtained her Master of Laws in Human Rights degree from the University of Hong Kong with distinction.  Prior to her involvement in projects in Cambodia, she worked as a Director for Legislative Affairs in the Philippine Senate and as a corporate lawyer at SyCip Salazar Hernandez Gatmaitan Law Offices.

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Nora FUCHS is a Swiss trial monitor who received her Master of Laws degree from the Universities of Zurich and Neuchâtel, Switzerland and Oslo, Norway.  During her studies, she focused on international criminal law and international humanitarian law. Nora has completed an internship at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and has since been working for the Swiss Ministry of Defense.

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Ramu NACHIAPPAN is a 4th year Bachelor of Laws student at the National University of Singapore. In 2011, he participated in the Oxford, Monroe E Price Moot Competition and has been engrossed in International Law ever since. He spent a semester in Georgetown University Law Center as part of his Student.
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Samantha LEESamantha LEE is an intern-monitor from the United States.  She had recently completed her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations at Stanford University, where she focused on the politics of international human rights law and retrospective justice.  Sam has also served as a legal intern for the Greater Boston Legal Services Immigration Unit.

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Samuel GILG is a Swiss trial monitor who received his Masters of Law degree from the University of Zürich in 2009. He completed internships at a District Court and a District Attorney’s Office in Switzerland before joining the KRT Monitoring Team.
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SovannaSEKSovanna SEK is a Cambodian lawyer who has been working as a lead monitor for the KRT Trial Monitoring and Community Outreach Program since 2009.  She also served as the Deputy Director of the in-country Legal and Content Development Team of the Virtual Tribunal of the ECCC in 2010. Sovanna had completed an internship at the Office Co-Prosecutors at the ECCC and served as an attorney-at-law at the Community Legal Education Center where she advocated the protection of land rights.

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Vidjia PHUN is a Cambodian trial monitor who holds a Master of Laws in Human Rights degree from the Central European University.  He teaches law courses at the Faculty of Law and Public Affairs of Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, where he also administers a legal clinic.  Vidjia was involved in the Human Rights Resource Center’s baseline study on rule of law in the ASEAN region, a report on which was published in 2010.

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