CGRS submitted input to the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, exemplifying how several U.S. externalization policies and enforcement cooperation undermine refugee protections and violate the rights of those fleeing persecution and harm.
This article looks at the pernicious impacts of opacity in asylum decisionmaking in U.S. immigration courts and CGRS's newly launched Immigration Judge Dashboard available to advocates.
CGRS submitted input to the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing for his report on land governance, land management, and the right to adequate housing, highlighting systemic disregard and erosion of collective land ownership rights in Honduras.
We submitted our analysis of the government’s interim final rule reducing the number of BIA members. Our comment urges the Department of Justice to rescind the rule in its entirety.
We provided our analysis of the planned additional border barriers and urged that they be halted.
CGRS submitted input to the Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to a Healthy Environment highlighting deficiencies in environmental assessments and the failure to adequately consult Indigenous communities in Honduras.
CGRS submitted input to the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development, focusing on the nexus between gender equality and development. The submission highlights the challenges Honduran women face from climate change, disasters, and environmental degradation, and ways to address them.
We submitted our analysis of the government’s interim final rule regarding registration for noncitizens. Our comment urges the government to withdraw the rule in its entirety.
This submission to the UN Human Rights Council documents how current U.S. policies denying migrants the right to seek asylum violate both domestic and international law, and have a disproportionate impact on Haitian and other Black asylum seekers forced to stay in Mexico.
This article examines the synergies between impact litigation and movement lawyering, and explores how impact litigation can help mobilize directly impacted individuals, while catalyzing support from a broad spectrum of stakeholders.