Sunita Krishnan is restoring "inherent dignity" one girl at a time. She founded Prajwala, a non-government organization in Hyderabad, India that rescues girls from the sex trade. She says about two million people are trafficked every year within India or from neighboring countries and most are inducted into the sex trade in big cities and tourist areas. Prajwala has developed a network of informants in the sex industry to help conduct brothel raids. Most of the young women rescued are already veterans of the trade and many are actually very reluctant to leave. "There's so much desensitization that has happened, so much normalization of exploitation that has happened, so much internalization of trauma that has happened. Some of them would any day go back to their pimps or procurer than rather be with us." Krishnan says,  "We have trained young girls as welders, as carpenters, as printers, as bookbinders, as screen printers, as taxi drivers and auto drivers." Today, she runs 17 boarding schools for 5,000 children victims of rape and incest and has rescued an estimated 1,500 women from lives of prostitution (link).

In 2001, as Sierra Leone emerged from a brutal civil war, famously funded by diamonds, that left 75,000 dead, more than half the population were displaced, and thousands mutilated. To address war crimes there, a Special Court for Sierra Leone was created in 2002 to try "those who bear greatest responsibility." It was the first war crimes tribunal to be set up in the country where the atrocities occurred, an effort to bring healing, truth and justice to the people of Sierra Leone. Since its inception the court has made slow process and is currently trying former Liberian president Charles Taylor on 650 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Though the court can only address the aftermath of crimes against our "inherent dignity," there is hope that it could ensure a more peaceful future. "There will always be preference for doing deals, for allowing the torturers and tyrants to leave the bloody stage with amnesties in the back pocket, with their Swiss bank accounts intact. But that seems to me to be yesterday's argument." said Special Court Judge Geoffrey Robertson, "I think the world is moving towards the position that there can be no lasting peace without a measure of justice."

Another approach to international justice for individuals has come through the use of technology. The International Commission on Missing Persons is meticulously piecing together human remains found in Bosnia's mass graves, some that have been repeatedly moved and comingled, and then using DNA technology to identify and return the remains to their families.  It's a painstaking process but one that is essential for the future of this small, ethnically diverse European country. Having lived here these many years, we still feel these tensions of fear boiling beneath the surface" says International Commission on Missing Persons Director-General Kathryne Bomberger, " We hope that it will make a contribution to truth, justice, and hopefully reconciliation, and that by looking at the past, they're in a better position to address the future here. "