Partner Organization: The Market Project

Student Staff Member Aja Mallory

This semester I am researching employment law and communication law for the Market Project.

The Market Project establishes businesses that provide sustainable and healthy places of employment for men and women who have experienced multifaceted traumas.

I am specifically focusing on the employment and communication laws of Uganda.

The Market Project operates a yogurt producing operation that employs around 40 men and women.

The business is moving to increase its productivity, grow its workforce, and expand its market reach in the towns that have no locally produced yogurt.


This post was written by a Center for Global Justice student staff member.  The views expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect those of Regent University, Regent Law School, or the Center for Global Justice.

Partner Organization Highlight: Alliance Defending Freedom

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is an alliance-building legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith.

Alliance Defending Freedom advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith. As an alliance-building legal organization, ADF unites attorneys, ministry leaders, pastors, and like-minded organizations in a common purpose: defending religious liberty, the sanctity of life, and marriage and family.

Recognizing the need for a strong, coordinated legal defense against growing attacks on religious freedom, more than 30 prominent Christian leaders launched Alliance Defending Freedom in 1994. Five exceptional men took a leading role in forming this legal organization, and set the high standard of excellence and good stewardship that we continue to abide by today:

• Dr. Bill Bright (Founder, Cru)
• Larry Burkett (Co-founder, Crown Financial Ministries)
• Dr. James C. Dobson (Founder, Family Talk)
• Dr. D. James Kennedy (former Senior Pastor, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church)
• Marlin Maddoux (former Host, “Point of View” radio program)

The Center for Global Justice, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law supports ADF’s Vienna, Austria office, helping defend religious freedom and unborn children in Europe. Student Staff members help draft case summaries for ADF’s digital legal library, monitor all cases before the European Court of Human Rights to determine in which cases the Center and ADF may want to be involved, and occasionally assist with legal research projects for ADF briefs.

To see where some of our students have interned or worked on pro bono projects for ADF, click here >

Partner Organization Highlight: Land and Equity Movement in Uganda

Land Equity Movement of Uganda (LEMU) is a movement which aims to unite the efforts of everyone with a contribution to offer to make land work for the poor.

LEMU is a Ugandan non-profit organization dedicated to protecting community land rights through legal recognition and representation. To LEMU, the idea is simple: allow Africans to solve their problems in uniquely African ways. In much of Africa, including in the rural parts of Uganda, individual property rights are a foreign idea that have yet to take hold. Thus, LEMU works within the framework of traditional communal views of property, but updates them to the modern world.

Traditional clan groups, particularly in the rural north, are often exploited, marginalized, and ignored by the government. LEMU accordingly seeks to obtain legal recognition and protection of these community lands. To do this, LEMU supports these communities in several ways, including legal representation and advocacy, dispute mediation services, filing for title paperwork, and establishing formal community rules and property boundaries.

LEMU works with locals, government, civil society organizations, students, elders, volunteers, and anyone willing to help make land work for the poor. Ultimately, LEMU works to ensure that the right policies, laws, and structures are in place so that everyone can have fair access to land and land can be used as profitably as possible for all.

To see where some of our students have interned or worked on pro bono projects for LEMU, click here >

Partner Organization Highlight: International Justice Mission

International Justice Mission is a global human rights organization that seeks to protect the poor from violence throughout the developing world. IJM partners with local authorities to rescue victims of violence, bring criminals to justice, restore survivors, and strengthen justice systems. Specifically, they work on combating slavery, sex trafficking, sexual violence, police brutality, property grabbing, and citizen rights abuse.

Their global team includes hundreds of lawyers, investigators, social workers, community activists, and other professionals at work in nearly 20 communities. In 2010, US News & World Report ranked IJM 1 out 10 “service groups that are making a difference.”

The Center for Global Justice, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law completes legal projects on behalf of IJM, particularly for their work in East Africa.

To see where some of our students have interned or worked on pro bono projects for IJM, click here >

Partner Organization Highlight: Shared Hope International

Shared Hope International is a Christian non-profit organization dedicated to combatting sex trafficking in the U.S. and around the globe through a three-pronged approach: preventing the conditions that foster sex trafficking, restoring victims of sex slavery, and bringing justice to vulnerable women and children.

The Center for Global Justice, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law Student Staff works with Shared Hope International by completing research projects, drafting reports, and assisting with the Protected Innocence Challenge (PIC), a comprehensive study of existing state laws relating to sex trafficking that is designed to inspire and equip advocates.  Assisting Shared Hope furthers the Center’s goal of advancing legal strategies and policies to end sexual exploitation and trafficking across the globe.

In early 2015, Ernie Walton, Administrative Director of the Center, advocated with Shared Hope and the Virginia Kids Are Not For Sale Collation at the Virginia Senate to pass Virginia’s first ever sex trafficking law; while meeting with various members of the Virginia General Assembly, the Coalition and Shared Hope distributed some of the exact materials that the student staff had updated the previous year.

Click here for a sample of student staff projects with Shared Hope >