“There was nowhere safe in my country for me,” she says. “I fought for 12 years.” Read Camille’s remarkable story of survival.

“You have treated us worse than an animal.” This is Lilian’s message. The teen mom slit her wrists at a detention center in Texas.

What inspires a person to become an activist in the fight to end violence against women and girls?

Take a moment to learn more about the children of our Border Project on a special day to commemorate child victims around the world.

As part of its Commitment to Action with the Clinton Global Initiative, Hogan Lovells will partner with Tahirih on a pro bono basis to improve the protections that U.S. laws offer to those facing or fleeing forced marriages.

Tahirih Houston Director says ‘indefinite, prolonged, and arbitrary detention of children and their mothers must stop.’

Violence against women and girls is not just a problem in countries like Afghanistan and Somalia. It’s happening in the U.S., too.