These two! Sweet, loving, hardworking parents of polite, studious children – finally safe from persecution – finally able to breathe easy…Founded by social worker Serena Simmons Connelly and lawyer Elizabeth […]
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“…don’t give way to hating…”
“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, […]
Read MoreTWO MAGICAL SISTERS
We want to tell you a Story. . About a pair of magical twin-sisters, who faced horrors beyond anyone’s wildest imagination. . We want to tell you a Story. . […]
Read MoreAN OLD STORY
TITLE: An Old Story CHARACTER: someone’s Daughter/someone’s Sister/someone’s Grand-daughter/some Girl we may all know. It’s an Old Story and it gets old real soon –in a faraway chaotic land, […]
Read MoreAn Old Story
TITLE: An Old Story CHARACTER: someone’s Daughter/someone’s Sister/someone’s Grand-daughter/some Girl we may all know. It’s an Old Story and it gets old real soon –in a faraway chaotic land, Girl […]
Read MoreInternational Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
As today is the UN’s International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, HRI staff members think of the clients we have served over the years who have been […]
Read MoreCarolina Wins Asylum!
HRI recently won the cases of a 23-year-old Salvadoran woman and her 4-year-old daughter who sought asylum from severe domestic violence. Carolina began living with her partner when she was […]
Read MoreAsylum Backlogs Wreak Havoc with Our Clients’ Lives, Parts 1 & 2
Check out Christine Mansour’s featured AILA piece discussing the impact of the asylum backlog on HRI clients. http://www.ailaleadershipblog.org/2016/12/13/asylum-backlogs-wreak-havoc-with-our-clients-lives-part-1/ http://www.ailaleadershipblog.org/2016/12/14/asylum-backlogs-wreak-havoc-with-our-clients-lives-part-2/
Read MoreIt’s a Process
Jackie + Frank VAWA is a federal law meant to protect undocumented immigrant survivors of domestic abuse by allowing them to apply for immigration relief without the assistance of […]
Read MoreBiafra in Dallas
September 23, 2016 Today a group affiliated with the Indigenous People of Biafra brought a peaceful protest to the area outside of the Human Rights Initiative office here in Dallas. […]
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