About us

About Us

United Justice is a survivor founded nonprofit organization working to defend the rights of victims of human trafficking and families of the disappeared. Our mission is to restore truth, justice, and dignity for victims of human trafficking and families of the disappeared. Through legal advocacy and research, search support, and survivor-centered pathways to support, we work to expose the patterns between disappearances and human trafficking. We combine legal advocacy and investigations, search support, and community-based support to confront systemic injustice and help survivors rebuild their lives.

Our team of lawyers, human rights defenders, parents of the disappeared, and volunteers accompanied families in their search for loved ones, in both live and posthumous cases, while advocating for accountability and reform at every level.

Our work is grounded in one belief: We believe justice is a right, not a dream, and every survivor and every disappeared person and their families deserve truth, dignity, and healing. Whether in courtrooms, rural communities, or international forums, we stand with survivors and families as they seek answers and fight for the justice they deserve.

✨ Justice begins with truth, and it continues with all of us.

Our History

Exploratory trip to the Colombian/Venezuelan border

Began partnerships with on the ground NGOs in Colombia and Venezuela

Started providing survivors with small businesses

Began partnership to create programs in Venezuela

Launched Educate for Change Program

Launched Educate for Change program in Venezuela, reaching over 100 kids with education and daily hot meals.

Began healing retreats for over 50 Venezuelan victims of sex trafficking in Colombia.

Provided over 700 vulnerable children with monthly food and basic needs during COVID-19 pandemic

Launched Outreach Program

Launched outreach programs reaching over 150 survivors in Ecuador

Provided support for 120 families of missing children in Mexico and Venezuela

Provided trainings on how to identify victims of sex trafficking for over 150 judges, prosecutors, lawyers and NGOs in Jalisco Mexico.

Launched Resource Center

Opened the first UJ Resource Center in Ecuador--public opening will be in 2023.

Launched The Justice Network in Ecuador -- a network of 50 professionals to donate their time and skills for local survivors of sex trafficking

Provided an awareness event for 100 professionals in Ecuador to learn about the local issue of sex trafficking and how they can get involved.

Mission and Vision

Mission

United Justice works to expose the connection between human trafficking and enforced disappearances through truth, justice, and dignity. We support survivors of human trafficking and families of the disappeared through legal advocacy, research, search support, and pathways to healing, helping rebuild lives torn apart by this grave human rights violation.

Vision

United Justice envisions a world where no person can be disappeared to conceal exploitation, where human trafficking and enforced disappearances are confronted as grave human rights violations, and where survivors and families are met with truth, justice, and dignity. We work toward a future in which justice replaces silence and every life is recognized as worthy of protection.

Our Values

1. Dignity First
2. Survivor-Centered
3. Accountability
4. Solidarity
5. Truth and Courage

Healing with truth.
Fighting for justice.

We Believe

Humanity Matters