History
IJM was founded in 1997 by Gary Haugen, who currently serves as the president and CEO of the organization. Previously, he worked in the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice, was director of the United Nations genocide investigation in Rwanda in 1994.
The organization grew out of a group of Christian lawyers who desired to provide legal assistance to impoverished victims of violent abuse.
Haugen and the work of IJM have been featured on “Dateline NBC,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” FOX News, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, Forbes Magazine, Need Magazine, Christianity Today, and in the New York Times Magazine. Haguen was also featured in Harvard Magazine and in the University of Chicago School of Law's magazine, "From The Record"
The organization's headquarters are in Washington, D.C. and it has partner offices in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and in the United Kingdom. As of 2012, IJM has field offices in Guatemala, Bolivia, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Rwanda, India, and casework alliances in Ecuador and Peru.
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