For women and girls like Tahirih’s clients, it is not enough to have just any attorney. Their unique gender-based violence cases require attorneys who are well-versed in both sensitive cultural issues and the extremely complicated and often unexplored territory of gender-based immigration law.

TED is a global series of conferences run by the Sapling Foundation, under the slogan “Ideas Worth Sharing.”

Event calls attention to incredible courage of Tahirih’s clients and of women and girls around the world facing violence and oppression.

On Wednesday, March 16th, the Washington, DC immigration law firm of Maggio & Kattar honored the Tahirih Justice Center at their third Annual Founders’ Day benefit.

The United States has just begun to take notice of the problem of forced marriage domestically; however, there is very little shared understanding among non-profits and government agencies of the problem’s full dimensions, nor any coordinated effort to envision strategies and solutions.

Community members across the city of Houston have stepped up to provide Tahirih clients with vital legal and medical care at free or reduced costs.

The court decision reflects a critical course-correction from earlier decisions by both the judge and the nation’s highest immigration court that held asylum claims by women who have suffered FGM to a higher legal standard than claims by other asylum applicants.