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 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 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.
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.
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 webinar explores the Trump administration’s migration policies, including asylum restrictions, TPS terminations, border militarization, and migrant transfers to third countries. Panelists discuss legal, humanitarian, and due process implications.
CGRS and our partners provided follow up information regarding our request that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights extend and expand its Precautionary Measures to better protect displaced Haitian women and girls at grave risk of sexual violence.