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International Justice Mission (IJM) is a global
organisation working to stop slavery and violence.

Right now, 50 million people are trapped in slavery. 1 in 4 is a child – that’s the equivalent of every child in England and Wales.

We believe every person deserves freedom and justice. Our team works with authorities and partners in 33 regions across 18 countries to combat slavery, trafficking, violence against women and children, and police abuse of power.

Working side-by-side with local authorities, governments, and survivors, and partners, we:

We've seen slavery reduced by up to 86% in places where we've worked.

But we don’t stop there.

Beyond slavery, IJM and our partners work in 18 countries around the world to protect people in poverty from other forms of violence and exploitation including violence against women and children, and online sexual exploitation of children and forced scamming.

IJM in the UK

IJM UK is part of IJM’s global justice movement working to end slavery in our lifetime and protect people in poverty from violence. Founded in 2006, IJM UK utilises our global expertise and experience to engage UK government, businesses, churches and activists in the fight to stop slavery and violence, both globally and locally.

Meet the IJM UK Chief Executive and Board

David Westlake

Chief Executive Officer

Melanie Lane

Chair Person

Martin Greenslade

Treasurer

Anita Budu

Trustee

Jo Rice

Trustee

Christina Kumar

Trustee

Colin Ross

Trustee

Andy Griffiths

Regional President, Africa and Europe

Meet the Founder of IJM

Gary Haugen

IJM’s founder Gary Haugen was a human rights lawyer working for the U.S. Department of Justice when the UN asked him to lead its investigation of the Rwandan genocide.

As Gary dug through mass graves and massacre sites, he remembers being struck by the terrible truth: the Rwandans who had perished in the violence “did not need someone to bring them a sermon, or food, or a doctor, or a teacher, or a microloan. They needed someone to restrain the hand with the machete, and nothing else would do.”

Compelled by the urgent needs he saw and inspired by his faith, Gary envisioned a new kind of human rights organisation: a group that would leverage the skills of criminal justice professionals to protect people from violent oppression.

Gary left his job and launched International Justice Mission in 1997. He and a small team took on cases where victims could not depend on their justice systems to defend them.

They met with obstacles and challenges. They faced disbelief that public justice systems could ever protect children, women and men. But slowly, the team saw their vision begin to take hold: traffickers were held to account for assaulting children; families found freedom from generations of slavery; young girls were brought to safety from sexual exploitation.

Today, we've seen entire communities transformed.

Gary has been recognised by the U.S. State Department as a Trafficking in Persons “Hero” – the highest honour given by the U.S. government for anti-slavery leadership.

Here's a closer look at IJM
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Your generous monthly support will help send rescue to vulnerable children and families at a moment’s notice, stand with them as they rebuild their lives in freedom and have perpetrators held accountable.

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