Learn more about our history of supporting survivors and get the facts about gender-based violence.

Learn more about adding “gender” as a sixth ground of asylum.

Child marriage remains a serious problem in present-day America. Since 2000, well over 200,000 minors were married, most of them girls married to adult men. Children lack the rights and […]

As daily activities ground to a halt in the United States to slow the spread of COVID-19, Americans have been confronted with a range of practical, financial, emotional, and mental […]

In 2019, the United States signed “safe third country” agreements with Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The agreements allow the United States to deny protections to asylum seekers, and remove […]

On September 17, 2019, the Tahirih Justice Center and Arnold & Porter filed a class action lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York on behalf of thousands of U-visa […]

This fact sheet shows the results of a survey sent to the field from Tahirih and a coalition of organizations showing the effects of recent immigration policy changes on immigrant survivors of violence.