JVI is a justice partnership organization. Partnership is the heart of our work. By partnering with local justice organizations, we combine greater skills, innovation and cultural understanding to design justice solutions that work. By partnering we reduce costs and redundancy in fighting
2020 was a year like no other. India and Nepal, two places where JVI has a strong presence, went on lockdown in March due to the pandemic. With factories and other workplaces shut down, millions of migrant workers dealt with multiple hardships
In recent years, India has strengthened its laws on child labor, but in the past six months, with COVID-19 taking a toll on the economy, that work has started to unravel. “Children have never faced such a crisis,” said 2014 Nobel Peace
Govind and his wife Lata lived in a small village in Jehanabad, Bihar, where they worked as daily wage laborers. Their family did not own a house and lived with one of their relatives. With mounting pressure from those relatives and a third child
What does it mean to seek justice for the poor and oppressed in today’s world? Some theologians have argued that the focus of justice is limited to accountability or retribution and that concepts of restoration and transformation are not really justice at
As part of JVI’s Urban Justice Initiative in Mumbai, in November, JVI and its local partners launched a series of virtual legal aid clinics working through our e-Justice Resource Center. The purpose of these clinics was to provide free legal services to advocates
Following the COVID-19 lockdown in India, resumption of economic activities has led to scarce job opportunities as many daily wage laborers are in need of work. One couple, Raju* and Neelam*, managed to find work in a brick kiln. However, they were
On November 17th, 2020 Justice Ventures International (JVI) along with partner NGO EFICOR and local administration raided two leather bag manufacturing factories in Nabi Karim, Delhi where 34 trafficked children were rescued from forced child labor. The children were trafficked from Bihar,
Justice can be defined as the exercise of power and authority to order society according to God’s standards. Loving actions may take place in an evil society, such as a slave society. But, if the order of society is not changed then
On October 18th, JVI and one of its local partners collaborated with the police to rescue five females (four minors and one adult) from a brothel in the northern Indian state of Bihar where they were confined and forced into commercial sexual
