Clicking Here will take you to Google, remember to hide your tracks

Publications

Browse our publications to learn more about how we support immigrant survivors of gender-based violence through service in communities, courts, and Congress.

  • Tahirih Comments on Eligibility for ‘T’ Nonimmigrant Status

    • Publication Date: September 15, 2021
    • Publication Categories: Comments

    The Tahirih Justice Center and other organizations that serve immigrant survivors submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in response to the Interim Final Rule: Classification for Victims of Severe Forms of Trafficking in Persons; Eligibility for “T” Nonimmigrant Status published December 19, 2016.

  • 2020 Audited Financial Statements

    • Publication Date: September 15, 2021
    • Author: Marcum LLP
    • Publisher: Tahirih Justice Center
    • Publication Categories: Financial Audits
    • Publication Tags: Governance

    Read our 2020 audited financial statements.

  • Tahirih Launches Helpline for Afghan Evacuees

    • Publication Date: September 13, 2021
    • Publication Categories: Statements
    • Publication Tags: Afghanistan, Asylum, evacuees, gender-based asylum, helpline

    The Tahirih Justice Center launched its Afghan Asylum Project to support Afghan citizens who recently arrived in the United States. Beginning September 13, Afghan citizens seeking assistance can call a dedicated, toll-free line (888-991-0852) and be connected with resources and local organizations that are providing on-the-ground support. In addition, trauma-informed Tahirih staff will be conducting legal screenings remotely with anyone presenting gender-based asylum claims for potential legal representation by Tahirih staff and Tahirih’s pro bono network.

  • Ensuring Equal and Enduring Access to Asylum: Why ‘Gender’ Must be a Protected Ground

    • Publication Date: September 09, 2021
    • Author: Tahirih Justice Center
    • Publication Categories: Research Reports
    • Publication Tags: Asylum, GBA Campaign Field, GBA Campaign Media, gender-based asylum, Gender-based violence

    To ensure equal and enduring access to asylum for survivors of gender-based violence, the U.S. must join other countries in adding a gender as an independent basis for asylum.

    Tahirih’s latest report, “Ensuring Equal and Enduring Access to Asylum,” lays out six arguments for why gender must be a protected ground.

  • NEW REPORT REVEALS NEED FOR NAMING ‘GENDER’ AS SIXTH GROUND FOR ASYLUM

    • Publication Date: September 09, 2021
    • Publication Categories: Statements
    • Publication Tags: Asylum, Domestic Violence, gender-based asylum, Gender-based violence, immigration, VAWA

    A new report by the Tahirih Justice Center highlights the urgent need for ‘gender’ to be recognized as the sixth protected ground for asylum. In Ensuring Equal and Enduring Access to Asylum: Why ‘Gender’ Must be a Protected Ground, Tahirih asserts that current U.S. asylum laws, as applied, fail to adequately and consistently protect survivors fleeing gender-based violence, leaving them vulnerable to further abuse and trauma. The inclusion of gender as a sixth ground is one of several critical steps needed to transform our immigration system into one that fully understands and meets the needs of survivors.

  • Amicus Brief in Dawson v. Garland

    • Publication Date: September 09, 2021
    • Publication Categories: Amicus Briefs

    Tahirih, the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, and partner organizations filed an amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit on behalf of a survivor of domestic violence seeking relief under the Convention Against Torture. The brief argues that, under Ninth Circuit case law, the existence of past torture cannot be ignored in determining whether future torture is likely, and that past torture is especially predictive of future torture in the context of domestic violence

  • AMICUS BRIEF IN NEGUSIE V. GARLAND

    • Publication Date: August 05, 2021
    • Publication Categories: Amicus Briefs

    Tahirih and partner organizations filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Negusie v. Garland, No. 21-60314. The brief notes the need for a duress exception to the persecutor bar, especially in the cases of children, people with intellectual disabilities, and survivors of gender-based violence and other serious trauma.