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Tickets are now on sale for the Tahirih Justice Center’s Thirteenth Annual Fundraising Benefit to be held on Wednesday, September 22, 2010, at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, beginning with a reception at 6:00pm. We hope that you will join us in celebrating the courageous immigrant women and girls Tahirih has assisted in achieving justice and equality.
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Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center recognized as one of Greater Washington’s top female leaders.
FALLS CHURCH, VA—July 20, 2010. The Tahirih Justice Center announced today that its Executive Director, Layli Miller-Muro, will be recognized as one of Greater Washington’s top female leaders with a Washington [...]
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 [...]
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Sofia*, an immigrant girl from Mexico, came home one day to find her mother lying in a pool of blood, unconscious on the floor. She had been severely beaten by her husband, Sofia’s stepfather. Although Sofia’s mother had been repeatedly abused by her husband, this time it was more severe than ever before. Sofia called [...]
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When I married Kasim, I had no idea I was in for a lifetime of misery and violence.
My parents, especially my father, showered me with love and kindness throughout my early years growing up in Saudi Arabia. Yet, Kasim was nothing like my father, and instead of the happy marriage and loving household that I [...]
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