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El Salvador--A Peace Worse Than War: Violence, Gender and a Failed Legal Response

Commentary
December 12, 2018

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.

No Justice for Guatemalan Women: An Update Twenty Years After Guatemala's First Violence Against Women Law

Commentary
January 1, 2018

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

Executive Branch Comment
June 14, 2023

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

Report
June 1, 2023

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

Policy Memo
February 10, 2022

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

Report
April 21, 2023

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.

Summary of Civil Society Presentation: Hearing on Widespread Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Haiti

Human Rights Body Submission
March 8, 2023

This document summarizes the presentation CGRS and partner organizations will present to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on widespread sexual violence against women and girls in Haiti.

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