Regent University SCHOOL OF LAW
SUMMER 2015 INTERNS
Center for Global Justice, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law The Need Tremendous human rights abuses confront our world today. The Center for Global Justice combats these abuses at home and abroad, advancing the rule of law, protecting children, safeguarding religious freedoms internationally, and combatting human trafficking. The need is great. The numbers of the oppressed, enslaved, abused and trafficked are staggering — and no nation is immune. Right now, more than 35 million human beings are held as slaves — more than at any other time in history. During the last quarter-century in Uganda, corruption and lack of the rule of law enabled the abduction of over 30,000 children who were forced to become child soldiers. Throughout the Middle East, Northern Africa, and Eastern Asia, millions of Christians are persecuted for their faith. Over 100 million children around the world live alone, without parental care, on major urban thoroughfares and dark byways. After two civil wars resulting in the deaths of millions, South Sudan faces the daunting challenge of changing from sharia to common law and instituting the rule of law to protect the rights of all. Human trafficking in the 21st century is the largest slave trade in history.
Our Response Regent has stepped forward to equip Christian advocates to promote the rule of law and to seek justice for the world’s downtrodden — the enslaved, the abused and the poor. The Center for Global Justice (CGJ) helps train law students to fulfill their callings as advocates for justice and supports advocates already in the field.
“ Our Center for Global Justice is at the forefront of the effort to use the rule of law to set captives free around the globe.” Michael V. Hernandez, Dean Regent University School of Law
“ Ministries that meet the needs of alienation and deprivation do not meet the needs of those suffering from oppression. These neighbors require a ministry of justice.” ary Haugen, President and CEO, G International Justice Mission