International Justice Mission

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International Justice Mission
purpose	Human rights organization
Chair:	Gary A. Haugen (President and CEO ), Dietmar Roller (Chairman of the Board of IJM Germany eV)
Establishment date:	1997
Seat :	Washington, DC , USA
Website:	www.ijm.org

International Justice Mission (IJM) is a non-profit, Christian, internationally active non-governmental organization dedicated to the victims of the most serious human rights violations in developing and emerging countries. In particular , IJM combats human trafficking , forced prostitution , slavery , illegal detention, police violence and unlawful land expropriation. Following the advice of development and aid organizations, IJM carries out individual investigations and mobilizes help for the victims.

Founding history

International Justice Mission founded

IJM was founded in 1997 by Gary A. Haugen , the current President and CEO of the organization. After studying law at Harvard University and the University of Chicago, he initially worked for the National Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR) in South Africa. He then worked for the US Department of Justice, among others. In 1994 he was appointed chief investigator by the United Nations to investigate the genocide in Rwanda. His experience in this activity led him to found IJM.

Secretary Clinton With TIP Hero Gary Haugen

Locations

Headquarters

IJM is headquartered in Washington, DC (USA).

Partner offices

Five partner offices around the world support the international work of IJM. Your tasks are mainly in public relations and the financial and personal support of the emergency offices.

Canada

IJM Canada was founded in 2002 to provide educational work in Canada and to involve the Canadian people in the work of IJM to prosecute injustice. The current managing director is Ed Wilson.

UK partner offices

IJM UK was founded in 2006 under the direction of Terry Tennens, the current Managing Director. The section pursues different goals: raising the population's awareness of global injustices, educating people about the work of IJM, providing financial and human resources, establishing partnerships, expanding IJM's international work and establishing contacts with Westminster and Brussels.

Netherlands

Germany

The German branch to support the international work of IJM has existed since the beginning of 2007. At that time, a German working group was founded, since the beginning of 2010 IJM Germany e. V. recognized as a non-profit and benevolent association. Since 2013, IJM Germany has had an office in Berlin with a focus on advocacy and lobbying.

Dietmar Roller is the CEO of IJM Germany.

Dietmar Roller (left) hands over the petition at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations to Reinhard Krapp (right)

In discussions with political decision-makers or on the basis of petitions, IJM Germany wants to draw the German public's attention to the problem of violence against poor people and to mobilize the public.

Australia

Operations offices

IJM operates so-called field offices in developing and emerging countries. The individual legal work takes place there. IJM currently works in 16 cities in Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Rwanda), South and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, India) and Latin America (Guatemala, Bolivia, Santo Domingo). There are also two alliance partnerships in Ecuador and Peru. Almost all of the staff in the deployment offices are nationals of the respective country.

Goals and approach

IJM brings individual cases to the national legal systems and accompanies them from the investigation phase to the guilty verdict. In this way, specific sources of corruption, lack of resources and other causes for the denial of the rule of law in favor of the victims of human rights violations become apparent. In cooperation with the local authorities, IJM counteracts these weak points in order to ensure that existing laws apply and those affected are fair.

IJM justifies its work with the biblical mandate to create justice (Isa 1, 17): Learn to do good, ask for justice, rebuke the oppressor! Get the orphan right, lead the widow's dispute! At the same time, IJM sees itself as a non-denominational organization and helps victims of human rights violations regardless of their religion, ethnicity or gender.

IJM works with numerous other human rights and aid organizations as well as with political decision-makers. IJM is primarily financed by donations from individuals and foundations. In addition, there is state support for individual funded projects and church grants.

Working method

IJM employs "investigators", lawyers and social workers who work on individual cases in close cooperation with national and local authorities in the partner countries. Individual cases of human rights violations are identified and prosecuted. IJM tries to point out weaknesses in the respective justice systems in order to achieve a long-term change in the human rights situation in the partner countries.

Casework model

The 4-part casework model is characteristic of IJM.

1. Liberation of Victims : IJM's primary goal is to free the victims as quickly as possible from the situation of a human rights violation.

2. Hold perpetrators accountable : IJM holds perpetrators of serious human rights violations accountable in the respective legal systems. It should become clear to them that their actions have legal consequences. Potential perpetrators should be deterred.

3. Follow- up care for the victims : IJM's psychologists and social workers work together with local social authorities and institutions to ensure that victims of human rights violations have a new perspective on their lives. IJM takes care of the complex emotional and physical needs of victims of human rights abuses. People affected by violence are guided into a self-determined life and informed about their rights through regular training. They also learn how to claim their rights themselves.

4. Structural change : In addition to the programmatic work with individual cases, the aim of IJM is to prevent abuse and oppression by strengthening legal systems and local communities. Training measures by the police and the judiciary in cooperation with the government authorities of the respective country help to protect poor people from violence in the long term. Educational measures in the slums and slums are intended to enable people to stand up for their own enforceable human rights. The mobilization and involvement of target groups in the fight against poverty, which is important in the rights-based development approach, is achieved at IJM through sustained empowerment in the reintegration of those affected.

Goals of the work of IJM in Germany

1. Support for the worldwide work of IJM: Personal and financial support for the work in the partner countries. As partner offices, IJM Germany has offices in Mumbai (India), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) and Gulu (Uganda). Donations to IJM Germany primarily benefit these partner offices, the project work is regularly evaluated. Another goal is to place full-time employees and interns in international work.

2. Educational work: The public should be informed about the most serious human rights violations in IJM's partner countries. In addition, IJM Germany organizes lectures across Germany on human trafficking, slavery and forced prostitution.

3. Political work: Establishing political contacts with the aim of motivating those responsible for Germany's domestic and foreign policy against human trafficking and slavery. Together with other European countries, Germany is to play a leading role in the fight against slavery and human trafficking.

Actions and campaigns

IJM Germany has over 200 ambassadors, including artist ambassadors Johannes Falk and Sarah Brendel , who organize various concerts, benefit events, charity runs and art exhibitions across Germany . The campaign “She is right - she none” has been running since 2015, aiming to draw the public's attention to the fact that the rights of poor people are not being enforced in many countries and that they are therefore vulnerable to everyday violence.

Actions such as the Relentless Campaign attempted to include the younger generation in the global fight against injustice.

criticism

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Actions referred to by the IJM as “liberation” are repeatedly met with criticism - especially in connection with raids on brothels and the arrests of prostitutes. Some of those affected see prostitution as their only source of income to support their family and therefore flee back to prostitution after their liberation. Occasionally “rescued” detained prostitutes committed suicide or were ill-treated by the police.

It was also criticized that the liberation of women and children from forced prostitution has shifted organized crime even deeper into the underground, making it harder for the police to find victims.

literature

• Gary A. Haugen: Just Courage. God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian . Inter Varsity Press, 2008.
• Gary A. Haugen, Gregg Hunter: Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom . Nelson / Word Pub Group, 2005, ISBN 0-8499-1838-3 .
• Gary A. Haugen: Good News About Injustice: A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World . Inter Varsity Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8308-2224-0 .
• Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros: The Locust Effect. Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence . Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-022926-9 .
• Rentschler, Rabea, Roller, Dietmar, Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros: Violence - the fetters of the poor. What the poorest on earth suffer most from - and what we can do about it . Springer Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-662-47053-4

Web links

IJM

• International homepage of IJM
• IJM Germany e. V.

media

• Gary Haugen at the TED Talk: The hidden reason for poverty that we must now fight In: "TED. Ideas worth spreading." March 2015.
• David Brooks: The Republic of Fear. In: "The New York Times." March 24, 2014.
• Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani: What happens when we end poverty? "The Huffington Post" February 5, 2014.
• Call And Response , trailer , film, 2008.
• David McKay Wilson: A Calling for Justice. In: Harvard Magazine. 03/04, 2005.
• Children for Sale , Dateline NBC, Jan. 9, 2005.
• Peter Landesman: The Girls Next Door. In: The New York Times. January 25, 2004.
• Quentin Hardy: Hitting Slavery Where It Hurts. In: Forbes Magazine. December 1, 2004.
• Maggie Jones: Thailand's Brothel Busters. In: Mother Jones. 11/12, 2003.
• Global Development Group: Child-trafficking crimes significantly reduced in Cambodia In: "Global Development Group." June 16, 2015.
• Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed: New Slave Trade In: "Frontline." July 10, 2015.
• Swati Deshpande: " Lodge staff sentenced to seven years for exploiting minors " In: "The Times of India". July 16, 2015.
• "30 Irulas rescued from bonded labor" In: "Nyoooz". July 14, 2015.
• Mallika Kapur: "More than 500 slaves rescued from brick kilns" In: "CNN". June 29, 2011.
• David Malko and Lisa Cohen: " Google joins fight against slavery with $ 11.5 million grant " In: "CNN". December 14, 2011.
• Holly Burkhalter: " A safer home for Cambodia's girls . In:" The Washington Post. "May 8, 2015.
• Soren Dayton "A multi-state rescue" In: "Sorenandamanda.com". 17th June 2015.
• Sarah Joy Robbins: "The Plague that People Can't See" In: "The Daily Beast". 20th February 2014.
• BBC News In: "BBC" January 2015.
• Cameron Conaway: "Violence packs a uniquely devastating punch on the poor" In: "The Huffington Post". April 2, 2014.

Footnotes

1. ↑ https://www.ijm.ca/our-leadership
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4. ↑ https://www.change.org/p/international-justice-mission-ijm-deutschland-mehr-schutz-vor-gewalt
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6. ↑ http://www.wn.de/Muensterland/Kreis-Steinfurt/Ladbergen/1969050-Dietmar-Roller-IJM-referiert-beim-Maennerfruehstueck-Moderne-Sklaverei-im-Fokus
7. ↑ Isa 1:17  ELB
8. ↑ http://www.idea.de/thema-des-tages/artikel/die-sklaverei-wird-weiter-haben-953.html
9. ↑ https://www.ijm.org/get-to-know-us/financials
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17. ↑ http://ijm-deutschland.de/
18. ↑ Thailand's Brothel Busters. In: Mother Jones. November 2003.
19. ^ The Crusade Against Sex Trafficking , The Nation, September 16, 2009, accessed December 25, 2016.
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