This one-of-a-kind fashion show featured justice advocates from around the world with a runway and set designed and built by students from NYC’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.
Produced by Cadence Media in partnership with IJM, “The Fight of My Life: Finding Ruby” is a true-crime podcast that weaves the story of Ruby’s firsthand experience as a survivor of online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC). Her strength is inspiring, as she guides us from the moment she was tricked through her trial and restoration. OSEC is a rapidly growing crime, and we can’t turn away. Ruby has spoken about the fight of her life. Now we need to listen – and make it the fight of ours too.
Join IJM to amplify the voices of survivors by hosting a film screening and hearing the powerful stories of rescue and restoration. Invite your church, friends, family and others in your community to hear the untold stories of trafficking and violence.
Meet Jenn Petersen, IJM Director for New York City Mobilization as she finds herself asking this question. Learn about the unimaginable cases of injustice she has witnessed that sparked her passion to make a difference.
The Global Survivor Network is an international group of survivors shaping and leading a movement to protect people from violence. “It is simply impossible to effectively scale the provision of protection and care of survivors if we're not paying attention to the voices and the needs of the people we are working to serve.” shares Michele Lee, the Global VP of Justice Solutions. This is why we are excited to share that this month a new chapter was launched in the Ghana Survivor Network in Ada!
Aung* was 16 when a recruiter lured him to work in a fishing boat in Myanmar. “Even at a young age, I wanted to help my family. While looking for work, someone offered me a job,” says Aung.
The ILO’s new estimates of the prevalence of modern slavery show an increase to 50 million people. Now is the time for all of us in the anti-slavery movement to re-commit to measurable reduction of this heinous crime. As the report powerfully shares, “Nothing can justify the persistence of modern slavery in today’s world. We can and must do better.”
IJM’s Ukrainian Crisis Response provides essential and unique support to refugees in need. IJM collects and combines experiences from working with Ukrainian refugees and with victims of trafficking in cross-border cases from Romania and has developed a comprehensive and unique response to the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis that consists of the following critical pillars of support: prevention, protection and prosecution.
