The five-year anniversary of the murder of IJM Kenya lawyer Willie Kimani and its ongoing case is featured in The Guardian. As Willie’s family and our teams wait for justice, his father speaks out: “As long as this case is in court, the wound [in my heart] won’t heal.”
Our 2020 study found that children are abused for two years on average in this hard-to-detect, highly traumatic form of trafficking. With timely intervention being critical, the #Report2Protect campaign partners with TikTok to spread awareness amongst Filipino youth and empower them to report incidents to authorities.
A 2015 case where IJM supported Mumbai police in freeing five trafficking victims has finally reached its verdict. IJM celebrates not only the strong sentence, but the pro-active and victim-sensitive response from the public justice system.
When Cindi learned about IJM’s mission, she desperately wanted to save the children who were enslaved and abused. She knew she wasn’t going to be the one kicking down brothel doors, but then an improbable thought came to her: “What about cows?”
The Kenyan justice system has dramatically transformed how it responds to these crimes, allowing IJM Kenya to focus its resources on tackling Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.
