CGRS—ACTIVE AND INVOLVED

June 2006—CGRS Director Karen Musalo gives a presentation about asylum and gender-based persecution at the Second World Social Forum on Migration in Madrid, Spain. Over 2,000 participants from 95 countries, representing 870 refugee and immigrant rights organizations took part in the Forum. Seated next to Karen is Itziar Caballero, who works with CEAR (Comisión de Ayuda al Refugiado), Spain’s foremost refugee NGO. CGRS and CEAR have been collaborating on a gender asylum campaign in Spain.

June 2006—A filmmaker who is producing a documentary on the Second World Social Forum on Migration interviews Karen Musalo in Madrid, Spain. Karen was also interviewed by a reporter from the major Spanish television network, Televisión Española, for a program entitled “Con Todos Los Acentos,” which aired in Spain on July 2, 2006, and included an extensive report on the Forum.

May 2006—CGRS Director, Karen Musalo (right), Sister Maureen Duignan (center) of the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant (EBSC), and the Honorable Judge Dana Leigh Marks (left) at the 2006 EBSC Awards Reception. Karen presented a special award to Honorable Judge Marks in recognition of her integrity, fairness, and professionalism towards all who appear in her courtroom

August 2006—CGRS Development and Communications Director Felecia Bartow greets House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi during a Citizenship Workshop organized by her San Francisco District Office. Congresswoman Pelosi was instrumental in securing an appropriation to CGRS, which allowed it to initiate its Refugee Rights Clinic, at U.C. Hastings College of the Law.

July 2006—CGRS Deputy Director Stephen Knight leads a lunch-time update and discussion on gender asylum issues for lawyers and law clerks at the offices of Morgan Lewis in San Francisco; the event was organized by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.