By Mary Harrison
As the Exxon Mobil Spouses Club (EMSC) Co-Vice President of Community, one of my responsibilities in the fall of 2008 was to identify and select an organization that would benefit from our Annual Holiday Luncheon auction proceeds. The Tahirih Justice Center immediately came to mind as I had recently learned about the organization [...]
I am a battle-scarred veteran of the Women’s Movement. I had long known of the grievous abuses inflicted on the women for whom Tahirih is fighting. I could barely read their stories, they broke my heart so. The indifference of our government to their plight, its willingness to hide out in the false haven of [...]
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With each passing year, I gain more admiration for the work of the Tahirih Justice Center and the manner in which Tahirih has expanded and grown, both as a viable force of legal justice as well as a vehicle of critical social and emotional support for its clients. I support Tahirih not simply because of [...]
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I have been interested in domestic violence issues for many years and have worked as a pro bono attorney representing abused women during much of my legal career. In 1999, my husband and I moved to Asia for me to take an assignment with one of Altria Group’s companies in Hong Kong. There were so [...]
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In August of 1995 on my way to the United Nations NGO conference in Beijing I had the pleasure of meeting Layli Miller-Muro. I learned about her recent work on the Kasinga case (a well publicized asylum case that established national precedent, enabling women to receive asylum on the basis of gender-based persecution) and was [...]
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