For many years, the Tahirih Justice Center has been a member of a broad-based national coalition urging United States ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Tahirih is participating in a “week of action” this week (July 5-9) to mobilize grassroots support for this important human rights [...]
Read more...Violence against women is a human rights violation and a worldwide pandemic—approximately one out of every three women worldwide is beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime. You can join Tahirih and take part in this international campaign against gender violence by urging your Senator and Representative in Congress to co-sponsor the [...]
Read more...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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