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Working with Medical and Mental Health Experts in Asylum and Related Fear-of-Return Claims
This article discusses the role health experts play in asylum and other fear-of-return cases and offers guidance on best practices for collaboration between attorneys and experts.
The Struggle for Equality: Women's Rights, Human Rights, and Asylum Protection
This article investigates the historical legal struggles of women seeking asylum in the U.S, including harmful decisons like Matter A-B- which have undermined the ability of people fleeing gender-based violence to obtain protection.
El Salvador--A Peace Worse Than War: Violence, Gender and a Failed Legal Response
This article explores the conditions underpinning high levels of gender-based violence and femicide in El Salvador, including the impact of the country's civil war, and evaluates the response of legal and governmental institutions to gender-based violence.
Applying the refugee definition to child-specific forms of persecution
This chapter in the "Research Handbook on Child Migration" analyzes how the refugee definition properly applies in children’s asylum cases and how governments can better protect children from harm.
No Justice for Guatemalan Women: An Update Twenty Years After Guatemala's First Violence Against Women Law
This report provides an update on the situtation of violence against women in Guatamala and implementation of a 2008 law addressing the issue, offering recommendations to the Guatemalan government and urging officials to accelerate training to handle cases of violence against women.
CGRS Comment in Response to DHS and DOJ Request for Comments: Circumvention of Lawful Pathways, 88 Fed. Reg. 31314
We submitted our analysis of the government's final "asylum ban" rule, which bars from asylum most people seeking protection at the U.S. southern border. Our comment urges the agencies to withdraw the rule in its entirety.
Deteriorating Conditions in the Jérémie, Haiti Prison: A Call to Action to Preserve Due Process and Human Life
CGRS, UC Law SF students, and partners at the Catholic Law School of Jeremie investigate conditions in the prison in Jeremie, Haiti, finding grave violations of human rights and offering recommendations for restoring them.
Deadly Inertia: Needless Delay of “Particular Social Group” Regulations Puts Asylum Seekers at Risk
This factsheet explains why regulations on particular social group are important, why this legal issue has become so contentious, and how the Biden administration's needless delay in proposing regulations is putting lives at risk.
Far from Safety: Dangers and Limits to Protection for Asylum Seekers Transiting through Latin America
This report covers the legal and policy context of the Biden administration’s proposed "asylum ban" and highlights nine transit countries' inability to protect asylum seekers. It also provides recommendations to the U.S. government based on its legal and moral obligations to refugees.