The Tahirih Justice Center was founded in 1997 to address the acute need for legal services of immigrant and refugee women who have fled to the U.S. to seek protection from human rights abuses.

The Center's founder, Ms. Layli Miller-Muro, created the Center after she was besieged by requests for legal assistance following her involvement in a high-profile case that set national precedent and revolutionized asylum law in the United States. —more
Tahirih (Ta-he-ray) was a poet, scholar who fought for women's rights in an oppressive Middle Eastern society in the mid-19th century. —more On the right: supposed likeness of Tahirih