Advocacy, Impact and Research
IJM UK’s Advocacy and Impact team works to bring the lessons learned by IJM to shape the UK’s response to modern slavery and violence.
An estimated 5 billion people live without the protection of the law.
If we are to effectively and sustainably end violence against the world’s poorest and most vulnerable communities, we must first ensure that they can have confidence that the justice system will offer them protection.
Our solution
In the face of this abuse, IJM and our partners protect people in poverty from violence.
We collaborate with local authorities to build communities where all people can expect to be safe and protected.
We are seeing evidence that IJM’s model works—that enforcing the law deters criminals and protects people from violence.
86% reduction in child sex trafficking in places where we’ve worked in Angeles City and Mabalacat, Philippines.
(Child Sex Trafficking Report, Angeles City, 2016).
72% reduction in availability of children for sexual exploitation in places where we’ve worked in Cambodia.
(Project Lantern, 2007.)
75% reduction in child sex trafficking in Metro Manila, Philippines.
(Child Sex Trafficking Report, Metro Manila, 2016.)
50% reduction in prevalence of land theft in Mukono Country, Uganda.
(An Endline Study, 2018.)