CGRS has been at the forefront of advancing protections for those seeking safety in the United States. Join us at our 25th Anniversary Celebration to celebrate decades of groundbreaking advocacy for refugee rights–and recommit to the critical work ahead.
The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies defends the human rights of courageous refugees seeking asylum in the United States. With strategic focus and unparalleled legal expertise, CGRS champions the most challenging cases, fights for due process, and promotes policies that deliver safety and justice for refugees.
CGRS undertakes strategic litigation to advance sound asylum laws and protect due process rights. Our current docket includes federal lawsuits challenging anti-asylum border policies and high-impact appellate cases that present opportunities to restore paths to protection.
CGRS provides free expert consultation, litigation resources, and training to attorneys and advocates working with asylum seekers.
We advocate for the fair and dignified treatment of asylum seekers and promote policies that honor our country’s legal obligations to refugees.
CGRS and our partners have filed a request with the Inter-American Commission, seeking emergency precautionary measures to halt enforced disappearances from the United States to El Salvador's notorious CECOT mega-prison.
The Trump administration's proposals to send migrants from the U.S. to Libya, Rwanda, and other third countries "make a mockery of the post-World War II refugee protection framework," CGRS Director Professor Karen Musalo writes for the Los Angeles Times.
CGRS Senior Counsel Anne Peterson details our client Ms. E.G.V.'s harrowing experience in ICE detention, the government's failure to keep records of her mistreatment, and our FOIA lawsuit with Casa Cornelia.
This memo (also available in Spanish) analyses the administration's first executive actions impacting people seeking asylum and immigrants, as well as implications for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Our analysis examines the Court’s findings on climate-related human mobility and offers recommendations for States, civil society, and academia to strengthen protection and guide advocacy moving forward.
CGRS and partners contributed input to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food outlining how climate change, land dispossession, and extractive policies in Honduras are driving hunger, displacement, and violence, and undermining the rights of Indigenous and rural communities. El documento está disponible en español aquí.
CGRS is at the forefront of the movement to ensure protections for women and girls seeking safety, advocating for policies that recognize gender-based persecution as a basis for asylum.
CGRS is pursuing advocacy and litigation to confront the climate crisis. Our goal is to expand legal avenues to protection for climate or disaster-displaced people seeking refuge in the United States.
CGRS and our partners, with the support of UNHCR, have released a first-of-its-kind global resource on international protection claims involving climate change and disasters.
Your support for CGRS goes to work every day, protecting the human rights of women, children, and LGBTQ+ people seeking refuge in the United States.
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