To ignite students and equip leaders to join in God's passion for the broken and the oppressed.
Our Mission
IJM Southeastern exists to glorify Jesus Christ by bringing light to the injustices in the world around us and by calling students to action.
International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local governments to ensure victim rescue, to prosecute perpetrators and to strengthen the community and civic factors that promote functioning public justice systems. IJM's justice professionals work in their communities in 12 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to secure tangible and sustainable protection of national laws through local court systems.
An IJM Campus Chapter is a group of students concerned about issues of injustice who desire to work together as advocates for the oppressed in a world of suffering. They partner with IJM in 3 ways: 1. Raising their voices on behalf of victims of injustice through prayer and advocacy. 2. Raising awareness on their campus and in their community of the reality of oppression in our world. 3. Raising support to enable IJM to rescue more victims of oppression.
Our Response
International Justice Mission’s first priority in its anti-trafficking casework is to secure the protection of the law for trafficked women and children forced into commercial sexual activity. IJM investigators spend hundreds of hours gathering and documenting undercover evidence of trafficking and sexual exploitation. Using this evidence, IJM staff members then work with local authorities to remove victims from forced prostitution and ensure that they have access to aftercare services to meet their vital needs. IJM lawyers work to secure the conviction and sentencing of traffickers and other perpetrators in an effort to deter future crimes. Sex trafficking will endure as long as it remains a profitable criminal enterprise. By freeing victims and prosecuting their perpetrators, IJM operations increase the risk and decrease the profitability of trafficking. IJM works to combat sex trafficking in India, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines. In the 10 years since the organization’s founding, IJM investigations have resulted in freedom for hundreds of girls and women held by force in the commercial sex trade.
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FIRST PERSON
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Bonded slavery is the continual labor of an individual forced to work by mental or physical threat. Bonded slaves are ownedby an employer to whom the slave or slave’s family is indebted. Bonded slaves are forced to work long hours, often seven daysa week, for meager wages, if any, attempting to pay back a debt that increases at exorbitant interest rates. In reality, there is noway to repay the debt and the laborer becomes essentially a slave for life. Many bonded slaves are children who are beaten andabused if they do not fulfill the extreme expectations of the owner.
THE FACTS • According to the United Nations Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, an estimated 20 million peoplewere held in bonded slavery as of 1999. • In 2004 there are more slaves than were seized from Africa during four centuries of trans-Atlantic slave trade. (KevinBales, Disposable People) • In 1850 a slave in the Southern United States cost the equivalent of $40,000 today. According to Free the Slaves, aslave today costs an average of $90. • Approximately two-thirds of today’s slaves are in South Asia. Human Rights Watch estimates that in India alone thereare as many as 15 million children in bonded slavery.