Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
During the late 1980s, CHIRLA's activities focused on three major areas: education, political advocacy, and community organization.At this time, majority of their advocacy work was centered around helping undocumented immigrants fill out their applications that would grant them a form of legal status through the amnesty provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act. [1]
The Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law (CHRCL) is a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1983 by lawyer Peter Schey with the mission of protecting and furthering the human and civil rights of immigrants, refugees, and other marginalized communities through nationwide class action litigation and activism.
The Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) are two community-based organizations that seek to foster the comprehensive development of the Latino community.CARECEN in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region was founded in 1981 to protect the rights of refugees arriving from conflict in Central America and to help ease their transition by providing legal services.
Los Angeles officials voted Tuesday to approve policies that would establish the city and its schools as a sanctuary for immigrants and LGBTQ youth as the city braces for the incoming Trump ...
Headquartered in Texas and with national reach, RAICES, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formally known as the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, promotes migrant justice by providing legal services, social services case management, and rights advocacy for immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking people and families.
[11]: 7 El Rescate, founded in 1981, was the first Salvadoran organization founded in Los Angeles. [28] CARECEN, founded in 1983, came next. [29] Most of the Salvadoran organizations in Los Angeles engage in legal services, immigration reform, education, civic and voter engagement, and cultural events for the community.
Newcomer education is a need with international implications. The Refugee Convention of the UNHCR in 1951 listed public education as one of the fundamental rights of refugees, stating that “elementary education satisfies an urgent need [and] schools are the most rapid and effective instrument of assimilation.”
In July 2018 Kelly Overton walked 100 miles between Palm Springs, California and Mexicali, Mexico to raise money for Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services and in protest of Trump administration family separation policy. In September 2019 Overton curated Art Across Borders: A Migrating Exhibit for Border Kindness.