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September 20, 2006
International Justice Mission
Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks | Filed under: Featured Nonprofit
Relief workers and missionaries overseas often witness injustice beyond the poverty or tragedy that may have brought them to the field. They see those in power abusing that power and resulting in violence, sexual exploitation, slavery and oppression. This sentiment was unanimously expressed by more than 40,000 overseas workers from 65 different organizations in a survey conducted by human rights professionals, lawyers and public officials. The results prompted them to form the International Justice Mission (IJM) in 1997.
"Nothing compares to the deadness in the eyes of a kid in a brothel," Gary Haugen, IJM president, told Forbes magazine. "In Rwanda, the dead were already gone. In the brothels of Cambodia, they are the living dead."
While relief workers and missionaries don't have the resources to address systemic oppression, the IJM does, stepping in to offer legal aid, advocacy and international awareness. And awareness is what they're getting with a steady stream of media attention, including Oprah and Dateline NBC--which partnered in an undercover raid. IJM even landed a $5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006. The result is that slaves and the victims of sex trafficking are going free and justice is being done.
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