Gary Haugen serves as President and CEO of International Justice Mission, today’s leading global, casework-based human rights agency. IJM works in developing countries around the world to bring rescue to victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent abuse. IJM lawyers, social workers and investigators partner with local authorities to secure victim relief and aftercare, pursue the prosecution of perpetrators of abuse, and work to transform public justice systems so that the poor can rely on them for protection. Before founding IJM, Haugen, a graduate of Harvard and the University of Chicago Law School, was a human rights lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice and served as the Director of the U.N. investigation in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.

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