The Tahirih Justice Center is a national, nonprofit that has served over 30,000 immigrant survivors fleeing gender-based violence since 1997. Our interdisciplinary, trauma-informed model of service is now delivered from five locations, and we’re committed to serving as many immigrant survivors as possible.
About Us
Our transformative approach to ending gender-based violence
By combining free legal services and social services case management with bridge-building policy advocacy and research-based training and education,, Tahirih advocates both for individual immigrant survivors and to change the systems that are complicit in the conditions of their oppression.
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Values
Tahirih is a secular organization founded on the principles of the Baha’i faith and works to create a world in which all people share equal rights and live in safety and with dignity.
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History
Layli Miller-Muro founded Tahirih in 1997 after her involvement in a case that revolutionized asylum law.
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Partners
We collaborate with individuals, corporations, and governments in service of immigrant survivors of violence.
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People
Our distinguished staff, board of directors, ambassadors, and local advisory councils steer our work to secure justice for survivors.
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Awards
Our interdisciplinary, trauma-informed model of service has garnered multiple awards and accolades.
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Who was Tahirih?
Born in 1814, Tahirih (TAH-heh-ray) was an exemplar of women’s strength in Persia, at a time when most women were kept illiterate and hidden from the public sphere.