Teaching Human Rights in Cambodia

Issue Date October 1997
Volume 8
Issue 4
Page Numbers 154-64
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About the Authors

Kassie Neou

Kassie Neou, who served as vice chairman of Cambodia’s National Election Committee during that country’s 1998 elections, is founder and director of the Cambodian Institute of Human Rights (CIHR).

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Jeffrey C. Gallup

Jeffrey C. Gallup, former associate director of the Cambodian Institute of Human Rights, is currently a visiting fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies.

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