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Background information
on gender and asylum issues4

CGRS’s core mission is to protect the basic human rights of refugee women and girls by advancing gender-sensitive asylum laws, helping advocates successfully represent women in need of protection, and preventing these refugees from being forcibly returned to the countries from which they have fled.

In addition to engaging in scholarly research, policy work, and impact litigation, the Center carries out original research and advocacy initiatives around human rights violations in specific countries or regions of the world. CGRS also seeks to address root causes for migration flows, including injustices and human rights violations against women in refugee-producing countries.
 

• CGRS in the News

Federal court opens door for Guatemalan asylum claim

Listen to an Interview with
Jayne Fleming, an attorney at Reed Smith, on the Obama Administration’s recommendation of political asylum for a Guatemalan woman seeking protection from domestic violence. (10/30; 4:12) Click button below to listen.

Watch an interview with CGRS Director Karen Musalo on Univision (Spanish). Click the button below to watch.

Read more news here...

 

• Matter of R.A. (Guatemala)

See this page for updates on the case and other legal documents and information pertaining to Matter of R.A.

Download DHS's brief to the Attorney General in Matter of R.A. (Feb. 2004) urging that Rody Alvarado be granted asylum.

• Matter of L.R. (Mexico)

Download DHS's brief in L. R. (April 2009) setting forth a road map for establishing eligibility for asylum based on Membership in a Particular Social Group.

Copies of CGRS’s March 2010 filing in the L.R. case on remand are now available. You can request your copy here.

• Femicide in Guatemala

In Guatemala, women are being raped, mutilated and murdered with impunity every day. Learn more and download our reports.

• Fauziya Kassindja and the Struggle for Gender Asylum

Read Fauziya Kassindja's story and learn more about this groundbreaking case.

 

 

 

 

• Latest News & Updates

On May 19, 2010 the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Refugee Protection Act of 2010 (S.3113). Read CGRS’s written testimony on the importance of the bill, submitted for the record.

Copies of CGRS’s March 2010 filing in the L.R. case on remand are now available; please click here to request copies and/or assistance for a related matter

CGRS Director Karen Musalo is recipient of 2010 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year Award. Read more here.

On March 15, 2010 the The Refugee Protection Act of 2010 was introduced in an effort to renew the U.S. commitment to protect refugees. Read the full summary here. Take action here.

CGRS applauds U.S. Representatives Stark, Moran, and Watson for introducing a bill to eliminate the arbitrary one-year filing deadline, which denies protection to bona fide refugees who do not file asylum applications within one year of arrival to the U.S. Learn more about the problems caused by the one-year deadline.

Help end violence against women worldwide – Learn How

Rody Alvarado Finally Granted Asylum! read the latest here.

Center for Gender & Refugee Studies and Civil Justice Clinic at UC Hastings receive 400k cy pres award!

CGRS’s “Buchalter Nemer Refugee Women’s Litigation Project” is underway. Click here to read the latest media coverage of the project's work on behalf of clients, Rody Alvarado and L.R., or join in supporting our efforts.

• The UC Hastings Refugee and Human Rights Clinic

Law students at U.C.Hastings can work with CGRS through the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic.

• Need help with your appeal?

CGRS authors amicus briefs as well as enters as co-counsel in select cases. Please fill out this form for more information.

 

• 2008 CGRS Annual Report