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Tahirih Justice Center CNN: Around 90% of Afghan women suffer from domestic violence. Video reveals harsh abuse against women and girls: http://bit.ly/4yNRZg
Tahirih Justice Center Tahirih calls attention to government’s continued failure to enforce 1996 law to protect foreign brides from abuse: http://bit.ly/R6SHs
Department of Justice News Release Reveals Failure to Enforce 2006 Law to Protect Foreign Brides fro
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Falls Church, VA—October 16, 2009. A US Department of Justice (DOJ) News Release issued on October 13, 2009[1] raises renewed serious concerns about the federal government’s inattention to the full implementation ...
Tahirih Justice Center Administration releases report that decries the unacceptable state of immigrant detention, which serves to punish those who have committed no crime: http://bit.ly/37nA8o http://bit.ly/37nA8o
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A federal study described an inappropriately penal system growing without tools for monitoring.
Tahirih Justice Center Read Tahirih’s new report, as featured in the Washington Post, on the US asylum system’s failure to protect women and girls fleeing persecution: http://tahirih.org/2009/10/asylum-report
Tahirih Hosts Congressional Briefing and Releases Report on Refugee Women and Girls in the US Asylum
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On September 30, 2009, the Tahirih Justice Center held a Congressional Briefing to examine challenges faced by women and girls fleeing persecution and seeking protection in the United States, along with co-conveners, the Women’s Refugee Commission and Human Rights First. ...
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Tahirih is featured in today’s
Washington Post about the challenges facing women asylum seekers:
http://bit.ly/2ThDvK
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Women seeking political asylum in the United States based on gender-related persecution can get mired in a legal labyrinth that can leave their cases unresolved for years, according to a report being released Thursday by the Tahirih Justice Center, a nonprofit group in Falls Church that works to...
Tahirih Justice Center Tahirih's Benefit yesterday evening and congressional briefing earlier in the afternoon were great successes thanks to all our supporters!
Tahirih Justice Center HopeLine from Verizon is providing victims of domestic violence, including Tahirih clients, a safe way to reach help. Donate your used phone today: http://www.verizonwireless.com/hopeline
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Tahirih Justice Center Tahirih attorney quoted in article highlighting new efforts to address the 9 year backlog of U visa cases to protect victims of crime: http://bit.ly/577LD
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For nearly a decade, visas that could help battered immigrant women were held up by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' failure to issue implementation regulations. Now the backlog is shrinking fast. The first of two stories.
Tahirih Justice Center A well-written article that addresses the dangers of the wide-spread public belief that non-profits with little to no overhead are the best place to put their money.
Source: www.ssireview.org
Stanford Social Innovation Review is an award-winning magazine covering best strategies for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses. Published quarterly by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Tahirih Justice Center Tahirih’s Executive Director, Layli Miller-Muro, will appear in “E-mail Order Bride” on the National Geographic Channel tonight at 9:00pm EST: http://bit.ly/CXO8m
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Inside secures exclusive access to some of the most difficult stories and takes viewers inside topics with new insight and perspective.
Tahirih Justice Center Tahirih opened its first field office in Houston this week to serve immigrant women and girls in Texas!
Tahirih Justice Center NYT: "A New Gender Agenda" – a conversation with Hillary Clinton on women’s issues and Obama’s foreign policy: http://bit.ly/uFHK
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Hillary Clinton talks about the Obama administration’s plans to push women’s rights issues on the international stage.
Tahirih Justice Center NYT: “Not a Victim, but a Hero” – A woman’s amazing courage to fight back against injustice: http://bit.ly/G5OlU
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A Pakistani girl musters the courage to publicly fight her rapists, despite threats to her family.
Tahirih Justice Center Tahirih has been named "one of the best small charities in the Washington, DC region" by the 2009-10 Catalogue for Philanthropy!
