A 14-time Emmy Award-winning Host, Executive Producer, and Anchor. A Platinum-selling singer-songwriter. An Emmy-nominated actress. These are the real-life advocates who, at Tahirih’s 20th Anniversary Gala, helped raise $1 million for women and girls seeking justice!

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 issued this statement after a federal judge in San Francisco ruled to temporarily block efforts to withhold funds from so-called sanctuary jurisdictions.

Watch Tahirih CEO Layli Miller-Muro’s Facebook Live discussion with journalist Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times.

While our immigration policy advocacy progresses, Tahirih is driving forward the ongoing campaign to end child marriage in the U.S.

Tahirih’s Chief of Policy and Programs testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security on the impact of the January 25 Executive Order.

Tahirih filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit brought to prevent enforcement of a section of a January 25 Executive Order on immigration.