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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 10 Year Anniversary Celebration! For details click here.

• CGRS in the News

Julia Preston, Woman's Asylum Case Sent Back to Review Board, The New York Times, September 30, 2008.

Trymaine Lee, Mukasey Vacates Panel's Decision Denying Asylum to Malian Woman. New York Times, September 23, 2008.

• Matter of R.A.

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.

• 2007 Annual Report

 

• 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.

 

 

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• Latest News & Updates

Nov. 2008 - The struggle for justice in the murder case of Pepe Mendez continues. On October 2008, an appellate court vacated a previous decision in the case. The Mendez family has now appealed the decision to the Guatemalan Supreme Court. Read more...

Sept. 25, 2008 - New Ruling by Attorney General Mukasey May Endanger Rights of Women Asylum Seekers
In a move that could change the course of protection of women asylum seekers across the country, Attorney General Michael Mukasey certified the case of Guatemalan asylum seeker, Matter of R-A- , to himself, overruling the decisions of two prior Attorneys General, Janet Reno and John Ashcroft. For more details see our press release. The full text of the Attorney General's decision can be found here.

Sept. 22, 2008 - Major Victory in Case on Refugee Protection for Women, Matter of A-T-
In a tremendous victory for women’s rights, on September 22, 2008 Attorney General Mukasey vacated the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), known as Matter of A-T-, which had denied withholding to a woman from Mali who had suffered past female genital cutting (FGC). Matter of A-T- had been seen as a blow to the protection of women’s rights and had been the subject of an intense public campaign, as well as litigation effort to have it reversed. More...

 

• 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.