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Clogged Immigration Courts Slow Hearings
Justice delayed is justice denied.
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IPS Brings Attention to Tahirih’s Call for Coordinated, Federal Response to Forced Marriage
Inter Press Service, a global news agency that focuses on coverage of marginalized communities,interviewed an expert about Tahirih’s call for a coordinated, federal response to the problem of forced marriage in the United States.
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Focus on Child Marriage, Genital Mutilation at All-Time High
Inter Press Service, a global news agency that focuses on coverage of marginalized communities, brought attention to Tahirih’s call for a coordinated, federal response to the problem of forced marriage in the United States in an article published this week.
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Big Think Features Layli Miller-Muro in Series on Thought Leaders
An educational media website dedicated to broadcasting the advice and insights of the world’s leading thinkers features our Founder and Executive Director Layli Miller-Muro.
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Brave Mother Now Faces Homelessness
A 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
Tahirih 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
Deysi 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
When 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
As 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
When 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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