“Getting connected to Tahirih’s resources changed everything. Their unwavering support gave me the courage to move forward and share my story with an asylum officer. After several difficult months, I was granted asylum. I felt like I had a second chance at life.”

Miller-Muro described as tireless advocate for immigrant women’s rights.

Layli Miller-Muro, who founded Tahirih in 1997, will be honored as part of UNA-NCA’s annual Human Rights Awards Reception.

Deysi Gonzalez’s diary begins with this sentence: “On July 3, 2002, I met the man I thought would be the love of my life.” Instead, she continues in neat Spanish script, the handsome acquaintance who courted her in Guatemala turned into a possessive bully who stalked and beat her.

Imagine jumping out of a plane without a parachute. That’s exactly what Tahirih’s Public Policy Director Jeanne Smoot asked an audience to imagine this week at a Congressional briefing convened to urge survivor-inspired immigration reform.

Tahirih Justice Center praises the United States Senate’s passage yesterday of S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act.

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.