Legal Rights Institute

03/14/2012

A 16-year-old Moroccan girl has committed su***de after a judge ordered her to marry her ra**st, according to Moroccan media reports.

03/13/2012

Near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a father doused his three teenage daughters with boiling water and shot them because, he told a court, he suspected they were having s*x. Two died. He said he killed them to defend his honour.

Murder in Iraq can carry a death sentence but under laws that activists say are far too lenient for so-called “honour killings,” the father was jailed for just two years. Medical examinations showed the girls were virgins.

Women's activists in Iraq, led by the only woman in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's cabinet, are lobbying to change a law they say is far too lenient on men involved in so-called 'honour crimes'

09/09/2011

Get your in support of the amazing work of in the U.S. and around the world.

Please join us at an informal get-together to celebrate the refugee spirit at Ceiba restaurant on September 15th from 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm.

09/06/2011

U.S. Admissions Program Report

The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program Report on Recent Progress and Challenges, Including Security Screening Procedures

09/02/2011

"After living in Europe for 12 years it is not fair that I do not know where I belong and who is responsible for my well-being. As to my country Iran, there is no way I can go back there as long as the Shiite clerics rule... And as to my status here, even though I have lived here almost for 8 years, I do not still have a personal identity card.... I have become like a stateless person."

In this letter, the father of of the family, pleads with the immigration authorities in Norway to allow him to work legally to make ends meet. He has been living in Norway for eight years.

08/13/2011

Domestic violence assistance and awareness organizations increasingly realize need for focus on and

menafn: Dallas domestic violence shelter focuses on immigrant, refugee populationsAug 12, 2011 (The Dallas Morning News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --One woman's husband...

07/12/2011

Enslaved in America: Special report on human trafficking in the United States and what the U.S. federal agencies are doing to combat this growing problem

Enslaved in America

06/30/2011

U.S. Drops Deportation Proceedings Against in Same-Sex Marriage.

The decision not to deport Henry Velandia, a Venezuelan, may have far-reaching effects on other immigration cases involving same-s*x couples.

06/29/2011

Conditions for asylum seekers in Greece are atrocious. However, forum shopping, if in fact proven, is also unacceptable.

THE GOVERNMENT has rejected claims that conditions are so bad for asylum seekers in Greece that their claims for international protection should be heard in Ireland.

06/28/2011

Love transcends gender, ethnicity, race, culture, nationality, and all else. That is why it is the most celebrated human emotion.

ecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered remarks on “The Human Rights of LGBT People and U.S. Foreign Policy,” at an event co-hosted by the State Department and G**s and Le****ns in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA), on June 27, 2011.

06/28/2011

Astonishing that slavery is as prevalent today as it has ever been.

Trafficking in Persons Report 2011 TIP Report Heroes