A determined advocate for immigrant women and girls with a rich history of service at Tahirih has been recognized for her role in a pioneering campaign to end forced marriage in the United States.

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 […]

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.