The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) is a leading voice in the movement to rebuild the U.S. asylum system and expand access to protection for women, children, LGBTQ+ people, and others seeking refuge. Our Policy & Advocacy team serves as a critical resource on asylum to policymakers, journalists, and the public. We provide rapid analysis of policy developments and offer practical recommendations for decision-makers at all levels of government, advising our leaders on how to ensure the United States lives up to its legal and moral commitments to people fleeing persecution.
This document presents CGRS's recommendations for the Chile Declaration and Plan of Action, which will emerge from the Cartagena +40 process.
We joined 158 other civil society organizations from across the Americas to endorse a comprehensive set of recommendations for the signatories of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, urging them to include civil society in its implementation.
Drawn from over 100 interviews with asylum seekers and local service providers in Tapachula and Mexico City, this report discusses myriad barriers to protection and inhumane conditions facing Haitian asylum seekers in Mexico.
This submission details the persistent challenges and dangers encountered by Haitian and other Black women seeking refuge in the Americas and offers recommendations to address anti-Black racism in laws and policies applicable to asylum seekers and other migrants.
Ésta agenda abarca marcos para apoyar a las personas afectadas por el clima que se trasladan a través de las fronteras y a los desplazados internos, así como estrategias para apoyar la adaptación in situ.
This agenda covers frameworks to support climate-impacted people who relocate across borders and those who are internally displaced, as well as strategies for supporting adaptation in place.
Refugee and human rights advocates submitted a written statement to the International Court of Justice addressing climate-related displacement as a useful reference for participating parties in the matter of the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change.
Defensores de derechos humanos presentaron escrito en calidad de amicus curiae (“amigo de la corte”) ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos para informar la opinión consultiva que emitirá la corte sobre la emergencia climática y los derechos humanos.
Refugee and human rights advocates submitted an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) to inform the Court’s upcoming Advisory Opinion regarding States’ human rights obligations in the context of the unfolding climate emergency.
Debido a los cambios en las tendencias migratorias, CGRS y 25 organizaciones firmamos una carta reconociendo la importancia de que los paises de las Américas se unan desde un enfoque coordinado sobre la inmigración y la protección de los derechos humanos.