This brief analysis examines the gaps in the immigration, health care, and public benefits systems that make immigrant survivors especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As daily activities have ground to a halt in the United States to slow the spread of COVID-19, Americans have been pushed into an unprecedented state of isolation, unemployment, and stress. For immigrant survivors of gender-based violence, many of whom are living with the effects of trauma or coping with ongoing abuse, this is an especially difficult time.

As our world adjusts to a new reality in its efforts to contain the coronavirus, our CEO, Layli Miller-Muro, speaks about Tahirih’s response.

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The Tahirih Justice Center is inspired by principles of the Bahá’í Faith – the oneness of mankind, the search for universal peace, the investigation of truth, the elimination of prejudice […]

Tahirih Houston Volunteer Coordinator, Piyu Sen

We’re proud to share our new report, Making Progress, But Still Falling Short: A Report on the Movement to End Child Marriage in America. This report contains the latest analysis […]

We’re proud to share with you the new Tahirih report Child Marriage in the U.S.: Survivor Story Compilation. The 20 survivor voices featured in the report provide a powerful window […]

On International Human Rights Day, we honor the resilience and courage of all survivors who pave the way for future generations to be free from violence.