Tahirih submitted this letter of support to the California Senate Appropriations Committee on SB 273, a bill that serves as a first step to addressing child marriage in the state.

Tahirih is concerned that HB 5442, a bill setting new conditions for the issuance of marriage licenses to minors in Connecticut, does not include several critical safeguards to help protect them from abuse.

Tahirih is on the front lines of battling the epidemic of violence against women, along with the army of supporters who make our work possible.

This is crunch time, when a bill to protect children from forced or coerced marriage could either slow and stumble, or instead be just steps away from becoming law. We need your help today!

The foundation is supporting Tahirih’s ambitious plans to increase, by 250%, the number of women and girls it can serve.

When you make a gift during our Bighearted Attorney Campaign, you will change the world of women and girls like Mariam.

Houston has one of the nation’s largest court backlogs, and the absence of just one judge can have a significant impact in the city’s chronically overrun immigration court system, according to an article published on Aug. 26 in the Houston Chronicle.