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"And Justice For All"

In the current issue of leading international policy journal Foreign Affairs, IJM President and founder Gary Haugen and Department of Justice Attorney Victor Boutros explore why violent oppression like slavery, sexual violence and police brutality is a daily reality for hundreds of millions of the global poor – despite the fact that these human rights abuses are nearly universally illegal.

Read the full article here or a summary Op-Ed recently published in the Huffington Post and learn about the “big idea” behind IJM’s work. It’s the hopeful and real solution Haugen has advanced on the frontlines for more than a decade – building functioning public justice systems for the poor.

What does a public justice system have to do with ending modern-day slavery? "The actual leveraged impact of rule of law is miraculous – all you need to do is establish a credible deterrent, and the people who once were slave masters decide they need to get out of that business." – Gary Haugen Watch video.

What’s the "big idea"? »
“Without functioning public justice systems to deliver the protections of the law to the poor, the legal reforms of the modern human rights movement rarely improve the lives of those who need them most.”
— Gary Haugen, Victor Boutros, And Justice For All: Enforcing Human Rights for the World’s Poor, Foreign Affairs

Get involved and help make functioning public justice systems a reality for the global poor:

  • Advocate with your representatives in Washington for the passage of critical legislation.
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"And Justice For All"

Explore the reality of broken public justice systems, those working on the frontlines to transform them – and the children, women and men whose lives are changing as a result. (Slideshow features direct quotes from “And Justice For All” and IJM casework images.)

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  • "With incomes for the global poor hovering around $1-$2 a day, the average poor person cannot hope to pay legal fees." — Image: Job* could not afford a lawyer when he was thrown in a Nairobi prison for a crime he did not commit. He was later released through the advocacy of IJM Kenya lawyers.
  • Poor people accused of a crime in the developing world may never even see a lawyer: "In Zambia...there is only one lawyer for every 25,667 people." — Image: Zambian attorney Pamela Mumbi (at right, speaking with IJM President Gary Haugen) leads a Lusaka-based staff of IJM attorneys, investigators and social workers to provide advocacy for victims of illegal property seizure and child sexual assault.
  • "Farming tools are of no use to widows whose land is stolen…local medical clinics cannot treat bonded slaves who are not allowed to leave the factory even when they are sick." — Image: Kutturaja and his wife lost a child to illness when the owner of the salt mill at which they were enslaved refused to allow them to seek medical care for their infant daughter.
  • Through capacity-building and political will, justice systems can be transformed to protect the poor – strategies "include providing material resources that give police, prosecutors, social workers and judges the basic tools of their trade..." — Image: IJM-led police training in Cambodia equips officers to protect victims of human trafficking.
  • "...Practical on-the-ground casework training; and legal aid and social services to the poor." — Image: Residents of a Ugandan village receive legal training from IJM on their rights.
  • "One promising model is called 'collaborative casework.' In such programs, human rights lawyers and law enforcement professionals work with local official to identify individual victims of violent abuse, extricate them from oppressive criminal enterprises." — Image: Local police partner with IJM staff to rescue victims of forced labor slavery in South Asia.
  • "International Justice Mission has helped pioneer the collaborative casework model." — Image: IJM Rwanda attorney Stephen secured victory in court for his client Beatrice, a blind widow victimized by illegal property seizure.
  • "In Cebu, the Philippines, two years of collaborative casework led by IJM resulted in a 70 percent reduction of children in the commercial sex trade." — Image: IJM and Philippine NBI officers partner on an operation at an establishment suspected of trafficking minors.
  • "As the authorities successfully solve and prosecute the kinds of cases that were once ignored, the poor and the marginalized start to demand more justice." — Image: In Cambodia, a foreign national accused of sexually assaulting more than a dozen impoverished girls is placed under arrest.
  • "Over the last decade, IJM has used this model to provide legal assistance to nearly 15,000 individual clients in poor countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America." — Image: Jayashri* – one of the thousands of clients served by IJM – was rescued from sex traffickers before they were able to complete her first sale. She now lives in a loving aftercare home.