The nation’s highest immigration court, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), recently issued a disturbing decision (Matter of A-T-) denying the request for asylum of a young woman who was subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) as a child and who fears a forced marriage if she is returned to Mali. The Tahirih Justice Center [...]
Read more...In honor of International Women’s Day, and to help fight violence against women and girls around the world, please call today to urge your Senator to co-sponsor the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA).
This bipartisan bill, introduced by the Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) and Sen. [...]
Please Vote Yes on SB 441
Maria ’s boss at her worksite pressured her repeatedly to have sex with him. She always said no, but his persistence was frightening. Maria told her boss’s supervisor, but he did nothing to help. In fact, things got worse, as the harassment turned into stalking and then one day, her [...]
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