After a year of intensive advocacy, ICE announced it will free hundreds of mothers and children from remote U.S. detention centers. What needs to happen now in the name of justice?

“There was nowhere safe in my country for me,” she says. “I fought for 12 years.” Read Camille’s remarkable story of survival.

Thanks to your support, for the first time in her life, Camille had somewhere to turn for help.

Works cited throughout this website address the epidemic of violence against women and girls, the unique vulnerability of immigrant women and girls to violence, access to justice, forced marriage, and […]

Daniella Prieshoff joined Tahirih in 2016.  As Senior Attorney in the Baltimore office, she advocates for immigrant women and girls fleeing gender-based violence in immigration and domestic relations matters. Prior […]

The first immigration case that I worked on in law school was a gender-based asylum case. My client was the strongest person that I had ever met.

A better world is possible for women and girls, but it will only come to fruition with an army of dedicated individuals.