An Introduction to International Justice Mission (IJM)

by Curtis Romjue of JUBILEE
Gary Haugen (Harvard, University of Chicago Law) worked with the US Department of Justice and led the United Nations Rwanda genocide investigation before going on to found the International Justice Mission in 1997.
During his time with the UN, Haugen was exposed to a variety of our world's great needs. Some people need food. Others need medical attention. Just as basic as these is the need for JUSTICE.
Haugen discovered that there are many groups who bring aid in the form of food and medicine, but where basic human rights are being denied as in the cases of forced child prostitution and slave labor there is often no one to help.
If a Peace Corps worker or missionary finds a child without food, the response is rather simple get them food. But what do you do when you uncover a brothel where children (some as young as 5 years old) are forced to perform sexual acts for paying customers? What do you do when you encounter the multi-billion dollar industry of rape for profit? Go to the police? Unfortunately, too often the police are part of the problem. Their silence is for sale. So what now?
Haugen learned that to help these victims of injustice, you must work within the appropriate channels of law. IJM is composed of legally trained professionals who conduct private investigations, documenting evidence in cases of injustice. Not relying on the local police force alone, IJM ensures that this evidence reaches the courts, and labors diligently for the prosecution and conviction of the perpetrators.

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[PernikityPatti]

We need to do all w can. These are our daughters.

[combatvetlawstudent]

Praise God for their work!

[GypsyCottage]

right on, thanks for the encouragement! keep up your efforts as well.

[ashleybethany]

Keep fighting against the injustice. Keep posting stuff like this - people need to know.