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Senate’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill: Big Step Toward the Protection of Children Alone
- Written by Megan McKenna
Washington, DC, April 17, 2013 — Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) applauds the Senate's Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill introduced today for its significant protections for children who have come to the United States alone. The bill mandates the Attorney General to appoint counsel for unaccompanied children in immigration proceedings.
Helping Women and Families in Need Through New Association of Women Lawyers Pro Bono Project
- Written by Megan McKenna
Washington, DC February 12, 2013
The National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) is launching a new pro bono project with KIND (Kids in Need of Defense), and the American Bar Association Children's Rights Litigation Committee to identify pro bono opportunities for NAWL members to help protect the rights of women and families.
KIND Launches Microsoft Challenge Campaign in Response to Child Migration Emergency: No Child Should Stand Alone
- Written by Megan McKenna
Washington, DC November 15, 2012
In response to the historic influx to the United States of children alone in vital need of services, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) is launching its first-ever challenge grant campaign to raise $150,000 to meet a generous offer from Microsoft to match dollar-for-dollar funds KIND raises to this level. Approximately 14,000 unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children sought protection in the U.S. this year, more than double the number who entered last year. Most came to flee human rights abuses, armed conflict and other violence, human trafficking, and severe economic deprivation.
New Bill Includes Key Protections for Unaccompanied Children
- Written by Megan McKenna
Washington, DC- June 30, 2011
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) applauds the introduction of a bill to reauthorize key anti-trafficking legistation that includes expanded protections for unaccompanied children in the United States. Click here to read more about The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2011.
Microsoft Donates $3 Million to Help Children Alone in the United States
- Written by Megan McKenna
Washington, DC- October 18, 2010
The Microsoft Corporation has donated $3 million to help children who come to the United States without a parent or legal guardian find pro bono lawyers to represent them in immigration court proceedings. The $3 million grant,over three years, is to Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), which was founded by Microsoft and Angelina Jolie in late 2008. Microsoft donated $3 million over three years in 2008 to establish KIND. Click here to read more about Microsoft's donation.
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Partners with KIND
- Written by Megan McKenna
Washington, DC- February 22, 2010
The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) has formed a first-of-its-kind partnership with Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), a nonprofit organization founded by Microsoft Corporation and actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie, to provide pro bono representation of immigrant children who are in the United States without a parent or legal guardian. Approximately 8,000 unaccompanied children come to the U.S. each year, are placed in U.S. custody, and face removal proceedings. More than half of these children do not have a lawyer. Click here to read more about this partnership.
KIND Urges Humanitarian Parole for Unaccompanied and Separated Haitian Children
- Written by Megan McKenna
Washington, DC- January 19, 2010
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) applauds the decision by the U.S. government to grant humanitarian parole to certain Haitian orphans and allowing them to come to the United States to receive the care they need. Click here to read more about this decision.
KIND Welcomes TPS for Haitians
- Written by Megan McKenna
Washington, DC- January 15, 2010
KIND welcomes the Obama administration's decision to grant temporary protected status (TPS) to Haitians in the United States. TPS will provide these Haitians a safe haven while Haiti struggles to recover and rebuild. To read more about this decision click here.
KIND Welcomes Founding Executive Director
- Written by Megan McKenna
Washington, DC- January 13, 2009
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), a Washington, D.C.-based non-governmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to ensure pro bono legal counsel to unaccompanied immigrant children in the United States, today announced the appointment of its founding Executive Director, Wendy Young. KIND was established by Microsoft and Angelina Jolie in October 2008, along with a host of leading law firms and corporate law departments. Click here to read more about KIND's new Executive Director.
KIND Launches Nationwide
- Written by Megan McKenna
Washington, DC- October 17, 2008
Microsoft Corp., internationally acclaimed actress Angelina Jolie,and more than 25 law firms and corporate law departments announced today the formation of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), a new national children's advocacy initiative with the mission of providing pro bono legal counsel to unaccompanied immigrant children in the United States so that they are treated fairly and compassionately in our immigration system. Click here to read more about KIND's offical launch.
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"These children often have nothing; no money, no support and no family, yet they come to America seeking its promises of a better life."
