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Our advocacy for courageous immigrant women and girls in communities, courts, and Congress depends on your support.

Please get involved right now by responding to an action alert!

  • Support I-VAWA

    June 24, 2014
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    By directing the U.S. government to create a coordinated, comprehensive, and concerted strategy to reduce violence, I-VAWA would have a powerful impact on the suffering of millions of women worldwide who face horrific abuses.

  • Ratify CEDAW

    May 7, 2014
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    We cannot allow the United States to continue to be one of only seven countries in the world that has not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

  • Protect Maryland Victims of Crime

    March 10, 2014
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    Status: Concluded

    Legislation under consideration in the Maryland Legislature would help Tahirih clients like Maria* rebuild their lives. And we need your help to make sure it passes.

  • Urge Congress to Fully Fund Programs for Refugees

    January 13, 2013
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    Status: Concluded

    The Office of Refugee Resettlement in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has an urgent humanitarian mandate to protect refugees, including vulnerable survivors of trafficking, torture, persecution, and violence. But the very funds ORR needs to meet its promise to survivors are now in jeopardy.

  • Ask Congress to Work Together for Victims

    November 30, 2012
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    Status: Concluded

    House and Senate versions of VAWA are almost entirely the same, and only a few critical differences remain to be worked through. Tell Congress that we know that by working together in good faith and with a victim-centered approach, these differences can be resolved.

  • Urge Congress to Do Its Job and Do Right By ALL Victims

    July 26, 2012
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    Status: Concluded

    Congress has only a few legislative days left to act on the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). We need to tell our legislators to do their job. We need you to act in these last few days.

  • Take Part in National 10 Days of Action for VAWA

    June 25, 2012
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    Status: Concluded

    The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is stalled in Congress, and we need your help to push VAWA over the finish line!

  • Tell the House that Adams Bill Harms Survivors

    May 10, 2012
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    Status: Concluded

    This misguided bill fails to include protections for ALL victims of violence and reverses protections for courageous immigrant women and girls that have been in place since VAWA’s original passage in 1994.

  • Support Legislation to Prevent Child Marriage

    December 2, 2010
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    Every day, girls as young as eight or nine are forced to marry men who are often decades older. If we do nothing, an estimated 142 million girls will be married as children by the end of this decade.

  • Reverse Harmful Asylum Denial for FGM Survivor

    April 22, 2008
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    Status: Concluded

    The nation’s highest immigration court recently issued a disturbing decision denying an asylum request from a young woman who was subjected to female genital mutilation as a child and fears a forced marriage if she is returned to Mali. We need your help to put gender-based asylum law back on track.