TA Program News

CGRS has released new resources, that can be accessed now through CGRS's TA Library:

• Preparing for a New Administration: Overview of Anticipated Changes to Asylum Law and Policy and Case Considerations
• Domestic Violence-Based Claims for Asylum and Related Relief
• Working with Expert Witnesses in Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and Convention Against Torture Claims
• Investigating Climate-Related Aspects of Fear-of-Return Claims: Indigenous Guatemalan Individuals
• Advocates' Guide to the Family Unity Exception to the Circumvention of Lawful Pathways Rule (CLP)
• Know Your Rights: An Asylum Seeker's Guide to the Family Unity Exception to the CLP
• Country Conditions Toolkits for Guatemala and El Salvador

This webinar discusses the differences between asylum/statutory withholding of removal and protection under the Convention
Against Torture including the different standards applicants must meet to establish their entitlement to CAT protection. The panelists also discuss scenarios where one may wish to consider CAT claims for clients and strategies for representing clients before the immigration court.

CGRS has released a new universal declaration authored by Dr. Elizabeth G. Kennedy addressing gang and gender-based violence in Honduras.

In this training, CGRS attorneys provide an overview of bringing claims under the Convention Against Torture (CAT), focusing on CAT claims for unaccompanied children (UCs). The panelists discuss when and why to raise a CAT claim for an unaccompanied child and offer guidance on child-specific arguments.

CGRS has released two updated country conditions toolkits on violence against women in Honduras and government ineffectiveness in Honduras and a sample annotated table of contents on violence against women in Honduras.

In this training, CGRS attorneys discuss when expert witnesses may be useful, how they can benefit children’s fear of return cases, best practices for vetting experts for an individual case, and identify the major steps in working together from the initial conversation to the conclusion of proceedings.

Want to help improve CGRS's TA services and get access to new features early? Click below to join our new focus group.

You can now edit your own case record to add new information and immediately get relevant materials in the TA Library. Go to your My Account page to edit.

If you are working on a case with other colleagues, clinic students, or pro bono counsel, add others as shared users to access the same resources and save time. To share, click Share Case on the case record.