Haitian Community Resources

Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS) protects the fundamental human rights of women, children, LGBTQ individuals, and others who flee persecution, combining sophisticated legal strategies with policy advocacy and human rights interventions to advance protections for refugees. 

CGRS offers free assistance in asylum and other fear-of-return cases involving Haitian applicants through our technical assistance (TA) program. Our resources on Haitian claims include memoranda on conditions in Haiti and common transit countries such as Brazil, as well as expert declarations admissible in immigration proceedings. If you are interested in reviewing CGRS's most recent Haiti country conditions memos for general research purposes, please complete this form.

Attorneys and advocates can access these resources through CGRS’s online portal.

 

Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) also known as “The BRIDGE” is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community organization that advocates for fair and humane immigration policies and provide migrants and immigrants with humanitarian, legal, social services, with a particular focus on black migrants, the Haitian community, women & girls, LGBTQA+ individuals, survivors of torture and other human rights abuses. HBA provides direct services including but not limited Rapid response Humanitarian assistance to Black immigrants and asylum seekers from the Caribbean and Africa and other assistance at the U.S.-Mexico border, in U.S. detention, and during U.S. immigration proceedings. We focus on Direct services, organizing and advocacy. We work to elevate the issues that Black migrants are facing to build more solidarity and collective movement toward policy change.

Haitians seeking legal assistance in the United States should submit this form to receive support in doing so from Haitian Bridge Alliance.

 

Haiti Response Coalition (HRC) is a cross-sector platform for sharing information and organizing collborative action for a stronger Haiti.  Members of the Coalition actively seek to expand their knowledge, cooperation and collective action using a human rights-based approach.