In late February, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights, in partnership with Phnom Penh-based CIVICUS, introduced Speak Truth To Power to Cambodia in a series of events that included a seminar on human rights education and a staging of Ariel Dorfman’s play, Speak Truth To Power, Voices From Beyond the Dark, which was adapted from Kerry Kennedy’s book Speak Truth To Power.

On Thursday, February 24, at Pannasastra University in Phnom Penh, the seminar on human rights education brought together a large audience to hear remarks by Kerry Kennedy, President of the RFK Center; H.E. OM Yentieng, Senior Minister, Cambodian Human Rights Committee; Dr. Kol Pheng, Senior Minister and Founding Chair of Pannasastra University; US Ambassador Carol Rodley; Dr. Kek Galabru, President of Cambodian human rights group LICADHO and Speak Truth To Power human rights defender; Father John Visser, Director of Don Bosco Training Schools Cambodia; Professor Surya Subedi, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights; and Theary Seng, President of CIVICUS, an alliance dedicated to promoting civil society.

To read CITA President Rong Chhun’s remarks at the Seminar of the Robert F. Kennedy Center on Human Rights Education click here.