About International Justice Mission

Casework

IJM's founding principle is the defense and protection of individual human rights for all people by bringing the law to bear on their behalf and by prosecuting perpetrators who violate local and international laws. 
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IJM Worldwide
IJM works in collaboration with local authorities to bring freedom to victims of human trafficking. Through individual casework, IJM confronts aggressive human violence: violence that strips widows and orphans of their property and livelihoods, steals dignity and healthfrom children trafficked into forced prostitution, and denies freedom and security to families trapped in slavery.

IJM's local justice professionals work in 14 community offices in Asia, Africa and Latin America, where they serve on the frontlines of the fight against oppression. In the tradition of abolitionist William Wilberforce and transformational leaders like Mother Theresa and Martin Luther King, Jr., IJM’s work is founded on the Christian call to justice articulated in the Bible (Isaiah 1:17): Seek justice, protect the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow. 

By defending and protecting individual human rights, IJM seeks to engender hope and transformation for those it serves and restore a witness of courage in places of oppressive violence. IJM helps victims of oppression regardless of their religion, ethnicity, or gender.
Every day, IJM lawyers, investigators and social workers around the world are: 

  • Conducting undercover investigations necessary to rescue victims of slavery and trafficking and document evidence against their abusers.
  • Working with local aftercare partners to ensure that victims have access to the vital services they need as they are restored to wholeness and hope
  • Ensuring that perpetrators are held accountable for their abuse in their local justice systems. Accountability changes the fear equation: When would-be perpetrators are rightly afraid of the consequences of their abuse, the vulnerable do not need to fear them.
  • Training and mobilising local authorities to stand for justice in their communities and building demand for responsive law enforcement and judicial structures among citizens.

IJM’s four-fold purpose:

  • Victim relief
  • Perpetrator accountability
  • Structural transformation
  • Victim aftercare

While IJM's casework is on the individual level, the cumulative goal is long-term structural reform of broken justice systems to prevent the abuse of vulnerable people. In the 10 years since its founding, the organisation has grown to a staff of nearly 300, the vast majority of whom are local professionals serving in their own countries. Through the work of IJM and the commitment of people of good will, thousands of victims of violent oppression have been brought to freedom and restoration: widows can provide for their children with the return of their homes, young girls are no longer raped nightly in brothels, and entire families are free from slavery. 

IJM The Netherlands
The Hague, The Netherlands is known worldwide as the ‘City of Peace and Justice’. As such, IJM’s office in The Netherlands seeks to support the casework of IJM International and to partner and create alliances with other justice organisations such as ‘Stop the Traffic’ and ‘Jubilee Campaign’ to shine more light on worldwide injustice and to accelerate progress in the areas of injustice worldwide. 

The work of IJM The Netherlands can be summed up as follows:

  • Educating the Christian community
  • Raising prayer support
  • Leveraging political will
  • Raising financial support
  • Conducting research
  • Providing expert training
  • Seeking (international) alliances in the fight against modern day slavery and oppression

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International Justice Mission The Netherlands, ING bank account NL37INGB0004961389, The Hague.

See also: www.ijmnl.org