International Justice Mission (IJM)

International Justice Mission is a Christian human rights agency that operates in countries all over the world to rescue victims of sexual exploitation, slavery, human trafficking, and other forms of violent oppression.

IJM conducts professional investigations of the abuses and mobilizes intervention on behalf of the victims. The four-fold purpose of IJM is victim relief, perpetrator accountability, structural prevention and victim aftercare.

The organization's headquarters are in Washington, D.C. and it has affiliate officies in Canada and in the United Kingdom. As of 2007, IJM has field offices in Guatemala, Bolivia, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Rwanda and casework alliances in Honduras and Peru. The organization grew out of a group of Christian lawyers and exists within the Christian community in an attempt to rekindle the social engagement of evangelical Christians.