And Justice for All
Haugen, Gary; Boutros, Victor
Foreign Affairs, May/June 2010, v89, #3, pp51-63
"For a poor person in the developing world, the struggle for human rights is not an abstract fight over political freedoms or over the prosecution of large-scale war crimes but a matter of daily survival. Efforts by the modern human rights movement over the last 60 years have contributed to the criminalization of such abuses in nearly every country. Without functioning public justice systems to deliver the protections of the law to the poor, the legal reforms of the modern human rights movement rarely improve the lives of those who need them most. In a June 2008 report, the United Nations estimated that four billion people live outside the protection of the rule of law. Few, if any, international human rights or development organizations focus on building public justice systems that work for the poor. The modern human rights movement must enter into a new era, shifting its focus from legal reform to law enforcement."
Gary Haugen is president and CEO of International Justice Mission. Victor Boutros is a federal prosecutor in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of justice. Both are lecturers at the University of Chicago Law School.
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