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IN CONVERSATION: PRIVATE VIOLENCE – LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE STRUGGLE FOR ASYLUM

Today’s U.S. asylum system fails to protect the people who need it the most, including and especially women facing compounded marginalization through gender-based violence.

The harrowing stories of countless courageous women fleeing domestic and gang violence from Central America and Mexico are recounted in the critically acclaimed new book, Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum. Together with RAICES, authors Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin discuss the urgent need for asylum reform, especially in this post-election landscape.