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Brave Mother Now Faces Homelessness
May 31st, 2014A mother’s fight to keep her children safe and sheltered underscores challenges facing undocumented victims of crime in the United States.
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Al Jazeera Features Tahirih in Series on Forced Marriage in the United States
January 21st, 2014Tahirih is featured this week in a four-part Al Jazeera America series on forced marriage in the United States.
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Immigrants Live in ‘Double Shadow’ of Domestic Violence
December 2nd, 2013Deysi 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.
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Fighting Violence Against Immigrant Women
September 5th, 2013When Anne Chandler travels around Houston, she doesn’t see the same city you and I see.
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Afghan Escapes Taliban Oppression, But Fears For Others
April 18th, 2013As an ambitious young woman in rural southern Afghanistan, Fouzia Durrani was headed for trouble.
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A Harrowing Story of Female Genital Mutilation, and the Houston Group Fighting for Women Refugees
September 26th, 2012When Kadi entered the United States for the second time, she knew there would be no returning to her home country of Mali. An activist who fought for women’s rights and who defied her husband and community to protect her daughter from female genital mutilation, she knew that returning would cost her her life and leave her daughter without a protector.
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Layli Miller-Muro Wins 2012 Goldman Sachs Award
September 24th, 2012The Goldman Sachs award goes to leaders in organizations across a wide spectrum of fields, from finance to philanthropy.