Gary Haugen

Gary A. Haugen is the founder, current president and CEO of International Justice Mission, an international human rights organization that fights for the rights of victims of slavery, human trafficking, forced prostitution and other forms of violent oppression around the world.

Life

Haugen grew up as the youngest of six children in Sacramento. Already in elementary school he wanted to be a lawyer and was interested in, influenced by the biography of Martin Luther King, the American civil rights movement. In 1981 he began studying in Social Studies at Harvard, he received a BA completed. After a stay in South Africa, during which he worked as an intern at the National Initiative for Reconciliation, a network of Christians, Christian communities and organizations to end apartheid, he went back to the U.S. in 1986 to study at the University of Chicago Law. There he received his Juris Doctor.

After various activities, among others the Ministry of Justice, the United Nations chief investigator for the genocide in Rwanda appointed him. Under the impact of experiences in Rwanda in 1997, he founded the human rights organization International Justice Mission ( IJM ). For his work he received the 2007 Prison Fellowship 's annual William Wilberforce Award. 2012 awarded him the State Department of the United States, the Trafficking in Persons Report Hero Award, the highest award of the Ministry of the fight against human trafficking.

Haugen is evangelical Christian. With his family, he lives near Washington, DC.

Works

• Gary A. Haugen: Freedom for Linh. Well -Verlag, Giessen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7655-1707-5.
• Gary A. Haugen: courage. Well -Verlag, Giessen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7655-1453-1.