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Focus on Child Marriage, Genital Mutilation at All-Time High
News
July 23rd, 2014Inter 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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Support Legislation to Prevent Child Marriage
Action Alerts
December 2nd, 2010Every day, girls as young as eight or nine are forced to marry men who are often decades older. If we do nothing, an estimated 142 million girls will be married as children by the end of this decade.
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U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence Promises Necessary Protections for Survivors
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May 26th, 2023The Biden administration has presented the first-ever U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence: Strategies for Action, a long-awaited, comprehensive, whole-of-government plan that aims to address and prevent gender-based violence (GBV) in this country.
The Tahirih Justice Center celebrates this milestone which represents a promise to protect human rights and support safety and justice for survivors of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, child and forced marriage, and other forms of gender-based violence. This plan is the result of years of work by administration officials and stakeholders like Tahirih who convened listening sessions with the White House Gender Policy Council to share our collective knowledge informed by years of providing direct legal and social services to survivors.
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Mariela: Voces de Sobrevivientes
News
November 16th, 2021Mariela is a survivor of forced marriage and domestic violence. She is currently seeking an appeal on her asylum case.
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What Survivors of Gender-Based Violence are Facing at the Border
News
October 15th, 2019Casey Swegman, Tahirih Forced Marriage Project Manager, authored a piece on the challenges survivors of gender-based violence encounter when they seek asylum.
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Courageous Voice Honoree, Moly, Shares Her Journey to Freedom
News
November 1st, 2018Courageous Voice Honoree and former Tahirih client, Moly, stood before 400 guests to tell her brave story of escaping an impending forced marriage.
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Tahirih Responds to Incorrectly Cited Gender-Based Violence Research in DHS/DOJ Report
News
January 17th, 2018The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice released a deeply flawed report that, among other problems, incorrectly cites Tahirih’s data on forced marriage.