Recently, members of the Exxon Mobil Spouses Club came to Tahirih’s new office space laden with bags of toys and books. The team of ladies and their children spent all morning painting, sorting stuffed animals, and decorating the brand new children’s room at Tahirih. And it didn’t stop there. Over the next six weeks, members [...]
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The Tahirih Justice Center has some exciting news. We are becoming a national organization and will open our first pilot field office in Houston, Texas, in 2009! After we establish the Houston office, we will refine our expansion model and open additional field offices in locations around the country. We hope that through a national [...]
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On June 20, 2007, The Center for Nonprofit Advancement recognized Tahirih as the winner of the prestigious Washington Post Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Management. Tahirih received a $10,000 cash grant and a scholarship to the Georgetown University Center for Public Nonprofit Leadership’s Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate Program. The award selection committee noted several outstanding [...]
Read more...The Tahirih Justice Center is truly a work of the community as evident not just by our large group of generous supporters and pro bono legal and public policy professionals, but also by the multitude of others who contribute their time and services. Today, we would like to highlight and thank our pro bono medical [...]
Read more...Many of you are aware that our Pro Bono Attorney Network—with over 600 attorneys—provides a vital boost to Tahirih’s direct legal services capacity, enabling us to represent many more clients than we could with in-house resources alone.
What you may not realize is that a growing number of “lesser sung” heroes donate their time to support [...]
Tahirih staff and Board spent 2006 intensively developing a three-year Strategic Plan. The recently completed Plan envisions, by the third year, a pilot project for national expansion. The 2010 vision is to substantially increase the number of immigrant women and girls in the United States protected from gender-based violence by nationally expanding Tahirih’s programs to [...]
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Michael A. Maggio, an internationally recognized immigration attorney and fierce advocate for justice, passed away on February 10, 2008, after a ten-month battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Michael was the founder and managing partner of Maggio & Kattar, a world-renowned immigration law firm based in Washington, DC, where his work ranged from setting precedents in international [...]
Read more...In the 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill (HR 2764), Congress designated $1,175,000 through the Edward Byrne Justice Grant program to the Tahirih Justice Center so that it can increase its efforts to protect women and girls fleeing human rights abuses. The final amount Tahirih will receive is yet to be determined and will be reduced by [...]
Read more...To honor our 10-year anniversary and the incredible courage of immigrant women and girls fleeing violence, we produced a 13-minute video that highlights the voices of our clients and describes our efforts to help them access justice. As we struggled to capture the range of issues faced by the over 7,400 women and children we [...]
Read more...Naima* was brought to the United States from Zambia by her father when she was only fifteen years old. He had been physically abusing her for years and attempted to rape her twice shortly after they arrived in the United States. Luckily, Naima’s struggles and cries for help prevented him from completing his assaults. Although [...]
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