How We Work

We engage in high-risk communities through Justice Hubs.

This model secures freedom, justice, and restoration for victims of trafficking and other extreme injustice. It fosters lasting, community-led justice transformation.

Our Model – Justice Hubs

JVI Justice Hubs are community-based networks committed to justice. These hubs unite NGOs, churches, government agencies, and private sector partners to fight human trafficking and other extreme injustice. Each hub is led by a core team of lawyers, investigators, and social workers.

Justice Hub Map

Our Model – Justice Hubs​

JVI Justice Hubs are community-based networks committed to justice. These hubs unite NGOs, churches, government agencies, and private sector partners to fight human trafficking and other extreme injustice. Each hub is led by a core team of lawyers, investigators, and social workers.

JVI Justice Hubs implement three core strategies:

1. Secure Justice for Individuals

JVI Justice Hubs intercept and rescue victims of trafficking and other extreme injustice. They bring perpetrators to justice through arrest operations and prosecution cases. Survivors receive holistic aftercare services.

Bonded labor is a form of slavery where someone must work to pay off an illegal debt or a loan

Child labor exploits children in dangerous and degrading work that robs them of their education, health, and future. Many are forced into industries such as manufacturing, agriculture, or domestic servitude, where they endure long hours, hazardous conditions, and physical abuse.

Photo: Children working in a brick kiln.

Children working at a brick kiln
Joint rescue operations with local police

Victims—most of whom are women and children—are often controlled through violence, threats, or the existence of a debt, making escape nearly impossible.

Photo: Rescue of women from a brothel. 

2. Empower Local Partners

JVI Justice Hubs equip local nonprofit organizations and businesses through human rights training, mentoring, and funding. This builds their capacity to fight injustice.

3. Strengthen Justice Systems

JVI Justice Hubs meet the specific needs of justice system actors through training and mentoring. This drives meaningful improvements in the culture and effectiveness of justice systems.

Training session

We achieve wider impact through Justice Movements

JVI promotes coordination and collaboration across Justice Hubs and with organizations in different communities. This catalyzes and strengthens a broader Justice Movement. In recent years, JVI has been successfully doing this by sharing technical tools –such as our Anti-Human Trafficking Handbooks for India and Nepal– and training opportunities on our e-Justice Resource Center (e-JRC). This technology solution reaches a network of partners with tools and learning that improve standards in the fight against trafficking and increase collaboration. In addition to the e-JRC, we focus on taking our training, advocacy, and litigation ability to the state and national levels. This ensures that our work at the community level is supported by changes in laws, policy, and practice in India’s halls of power. We believe that more organizations can join the fight in their communities. The current range of organizations and agencies engaged in anti-human trafficking have the potential to collaborate as an impact network like never before.
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