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The Women's Commission urges the INS to revise policies for asylum seekers, ensure oversight of detention conditions, and discipline offending officers.

The AI report includes findings on rape as a political weapon, the role of discrimination and poverty, and the state's response. This report ends with a number of recommendations to the Haitian authorities and the international community designed to ensure that the protections set out in international law become a reality for all Haitian girls.

These slides include information on the immigration status and the barriers to services for immigrant survivors and how to address these barriers and fears.

This fact sheet offers some statistics about immigration and domestic violence, and describes some of the financial, cultural, and linguistic barriers that may deter immigrant women from seeking services.

Using first-hand accounts of 13 women, LCHR shows that after managing to escape egregious human rights violations in their respective countries (i.e., sexual violence, forced abortion), these women have been, "detained, deported summarily, or otherwise treated unfairly."