New office opens in response to great need in Baltimore region for Tahirih’s lifesaving legal services for immigrant women and girls fleeing gender-based violence.

Tahirih Justice Center celebrated the opening of its Houston office with an inaugural reception attended by more than 130 members of the Houston corporate, nonprofit, academic, and religious communities.

Investments in internal capacity are not terribly glamorous, but they are critical to our ability to better serve immigrant women and girls fleeing violence.

Tahirih Justice Center is becoming a national organization and will open their first pilot field office in Houston, Texas, in 2009.

Ivana* was exhausted by reliving the abuse each time she had to testify. Her husband, Jack,* drank heavily three or four times a week. He raped, slapped, pushed, and yelled […]

Imagine you fled the country you were born and raised in. Imagine you sold all your possessions so that your children could escape persecution. You just arrived in a new country to seek protection.