Justice: What Is It and How Do We Achieve It? - Layli Miller Muro
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2019
- In this talk given at the Grand Canyon Baha'i Conference in 2018, Layli Miller-Muro explores the concept of justice, and how we can achieve it.
Layli Miller-Muro is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Tahirih Justice Center (www.tahirih.org/), which provides free legal services and engages in advocacy on behalf of immigrant women and girls fleeing human rights abuses. In its 21st year and with 5 cities across the United States, Tahirih has protected over 25,000 women and girls who courageously refuse to be victims of violence. Layli founded the organization in 1997 following her involvement as a law student in a high-profile case that set national precedent and revolutionized asylum law in the U.S. The case was that of Fauziya Kassindja, a 17-year-old girl who had fled Togo in fear of a forced polygamous marriage and a tribal practice known as female genital mutilation. After an uphill legal battle, Fauziya was granted asylum in 1996 by the US Board of Immigration Appeals. This decision opened the doors to gender-based persecution as grounds for asylum. Using her portion of the proceeds from a book she and Fauziya co-authored about the case called 'Do They Hear You When You Cry? ' (amzn.to/2ZXGJUh), Layli established Tahirih. Prior to joining Tahirih, Layli was an attorney at the law firm of Arnold & Porter where she practiced international litigation and maintained a substantial pro bono practice. Prior to joining Arnold & Porter, Layli was an attorney-advisor at the U.S. Department of Justice, Board of Immigration Appeals. Layli was named Newsweek/Daily Beast’s 150 Most Fearless Women in the World, GoldmanSach’s Top 100 Most Innovative Entrepreneurs, and won the Washington Post Award for Management Excellence. She lives in Virginia with her husband and three young children.
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What a wonderful talk about justice. Layla, you clarified so much for me. Thank you.
Wonderful talk. Thank you. God bless.
Thanks for the examples. I understand better when there are examples given
Thank you so much! This is an eye opener.
Now I understand the Hidden Words 2 (Arabic part) where it says that God loves justice above all else. I thought in terms of punitive justice, and wondered what kind of injustice I might be allowing to happen around me, and found it difficult to apply. But the way she explained was more like restorative justice, which brings our view of justice to a whole new level. Thank you for this wisdom!
Layli, thank you so much for this amazing, amazing talk. I learned so much! Thank you!
So grateful for the clarification about the "appearance of unity", I've also wondered about that. Wonderfully touching speech, Layli - thank you for uploading Baha'i Blog.
You're most welcome Andrea! Glad you found the talk useful, and thanks for your constant support and encouragement! :)
My concearn is how Tahirih Justice Center will be succesful in order to reestablish/fix the issues of Jas Cagens norms/Nexus Requirements of Equality of men and women/Nexis of the Law under Gender related Claims by solely focusing on women/girls only? Baha'i inspired aproach?
Justice its when equal implications under the law. Any Law.
You have a lot of research to do to fix the issues. It is not normal or Ok, when there is a gross neglegence and separation/segregation based on gender, also when Justice its not served.
Remember?
"Regardless how many good deeds/acomplishments has been done doring lifetime period, one bad desission will be Justified in the Next World to come"
Please help me to find those statement in writings of Baha'u'llah. Will be helpful to understand the full meaning of Justice. Thank you in advance.