Kristin Bochicchio has served as the BP/ Arnold & Porter Equal Justice Works Fellow at Tahirih Houston for the last two years, helping more than 60 courageous women and girls […]

Girls now account for almost half of unaccompanied children making the dangerous trip north from Central America. At the epicenter of the border crisis, Tahirih Houston is working to ensure their protection.

A mother’s fight to keep her children safe and sheltered underscores challenges facing undocumented victims of crime in the United States.

When Anne Chandler travels around Houston, she doesn’t see the same city you and I see.

“It’s so nice that those of us that have gone through such difficult times have a chance to get together and celebrate something,” a client in Houston said.

We were in the courtroom and I caught my client’s eyes. They filled with tears, and then she looked forward toward the judge and jury. She was a very small Ukrainian woman and very scared.

For women and girls like Tahirih’s clients, it is not enough to have just any attorney. Their unique gender-based violence cases require attorneys who are well-versed in both sensitive cultural issues and the extremely complicated and often unexplored territory of gender-based immigration law.