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Tahirih Justice Center
The Tahirih Justice Center, known simply as Tahirih, is a United States-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that provides ''pro bono'' direct legal services and social and medical service referrals to immigrant women and girls who are fleeing from gender-based violence and persecution. Tahirih helps women who are attempting to escape from such abuse as female genital cutting, domestic violence, human trafficking, torture and rape. The organization also conducts public policy initiatives designed to achieve legislative change for women fleeing from human rights abuses, to highlight problems faced by immigrant women in the United States, and to end the possible exploitation of mail-order brides by international marriage brokers. In 2007, the Tahirih Justice Center won The Washington Post Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Management.〔(Tahirih Justice Center Wins The Washington Post 2007 Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Management ) 13th Annual Award Announced June 20〕 In 2012, Tahirih’s executive director won the Diane Von Furstenberg Choice Award.
Layli Miller-Muro founded the Tahirih Justice Center in 1997 following a well-publicized asylum case in which she was involved as a student attorney.〔Kassindja 1998, p. 171. The case name became ''Matter of Kasinga'', because Fauziya did not know if it was proper to correct the immigration official who misspelled her last name on her entry into the United States.〕 Miller-Muro later co-wrote a book with the client she had aided and used her portion of the proceeds for the initial funding of Tahirih. As of 2012, the organization had assisted more than 13,000 women and children fleeing from a wide variety of abuses.〔(Services ) ''Tahirih Justice Center'', Retrieved June 6, 2012〕 The organization played a significant role in the passage of the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act (IMBRA), which was signed by President Bush in early 2006 and incorporated into the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). IMBRA gives foreign women important information about prospective American husbands (for a summary, see also Mail-order bride, Legal issues).
The organization is named after Táhirih, an influential female poet and theologian in 19th-century Persia who campaigned for women's rights. Tahirih is a Bahá'í-inspired organization, although its clients and employees vary widely in ethnicity, religious identification, and nationality.
==History==
The Tahirih Justice Center opened in September 1997 and has become one of the most prominent organizations in the United States for women seeking justice from human rights abuses.〔(Tahirih Justice Center ) ''HumanTrafficking.org'', Retrieved August 2, 2006〕 Tahirih continually expanded its number of annual clients and hired more employees as the demand for its services grew in the late 1990s and into the next decade.
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