Kek Galabru – Internationally renowned mediator and human rights advocate
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If you work with patience, determination and respect for human rights, you can make a difference in your country that radiates out to the world.
Kek Galabru, a Cambodian doctor recently named as a Human Rights Defender by the US-based Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), played a key role in opening challenging negotiations between Prince Sihanouk of the opposition coalition in exile which included the party of Son Sann, the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF) and the Khmer Rouge, and Hun Sen, from the People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK). A strong defender of her belief in human rights, Galabru founded the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), and was also recently suggested as a neutral member of the National Election Committee.
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