- Karen I. Tse
Karen I. Tse is a
human rights defender. An internationalhuman rights attorney and ordainedUnitarian Universalist minister, Reverend Karen I. Tse works with Rule of Law initiatives inAsia . Asocial entrepreneur supported by Skoll,Echoing Green andAshoka foundations, Karen has negotiated and implemented measures in judicial reform with the Chinese, Vietnamese and Cambodian governments. Karen first developed her interest in the cross section ofcriminal law andhuman rights as aThomas J. Watson fellow in1986 after observingSoutheast Asian refugees detained in local prison without trial. A formerSan Francisco public defender , she later moved toCambodia in1994 to train the country's first core group of public defenders. Subsequently, she served as aUnited Nations Judicial Mentor . Under the Auspices of the U.N., she trainedjudge s andprosecutor s and established the firstarraignment court in Cambodia.Karen is a graduate of
UCLA Law School andHarvard Divinity School . She has been profiled in international media and featured as a speaker at numerous venuesFact|date=April 2008.External links
* [http://www.ibj.org/ International Bridges to Justice]
* [http://www.ashoka.org/node/2986 Profile at Ashoka.org]
* [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/060730/7tse.htm Biography by U.S. News]
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