International Bridges to Justice (IBJ), a non-profit organization, is building fairer and more effective criminal justice systems starting in China, Vietnam and Cambodia, and is now expanding its activities to the Africa and Latin America. Founded in 2000 as the collaborative result of interested lawyers, academics, and business leaders, IBJ promotes the rule of law, good governance and equitable legal rights for all citizens by ensuring the effective implementation of existing criminal defense, justice and human rights legislation. IBJ achieves these objectives by strengthening the practical skills of public defense lawyers, improving legal aid and public defender infrastructure and increasing the awareness of basic legal rights and processes among ordinary citizens. In practical terms, this means training public defense lawyers; providing practical “how to” manuals and website resources; mentoring individual defenders through specific cases; providing offices and equipment; organizing promotional campaigns aimed at ordinary citizens; and running awareness campaigns with prosecutors, judges and police. Operating from the premise that just and reliable legal systems translate into secure and stable societies, IBJ focuses on the creation and support of those systems.