Awards & Recognition
  • PAIR was honored to receive the Daniel Levy Award from the National Immigration Project on November 1, 2007, recognizing PAIR's role in the New Bedford Raids Response Legal Team. This team consists of lawyers and legal workers who responded immediately to the Immigration raid in New Bedford on March 6, 2007, during which Immigration arrested over 360 people, mostly women, and disrupted the lives of an entire community. The National Immigration Project stated in announcing the award, “The collaborative work of the New Bedford Raids Response Legal Team truly demonstrates that to extinguish the flames of injustice in one community requires the collaborative action of all communities”.
  • PAIR has been selected for Pickering Fellowship of WilmerHale, established in June 2007, through which a WilmerHale associate will spend six months each year either at PAIR or at only one other non-profit (Boston Medical Center’s Medical Legal Partnership) as a full-time staff attorney.
  • PAIR client and Board member Edith Fobid was invited to speak at the Boston Bar Foundation John and Abigail Adams Ball in November 2006, where she eloquently told her story of flight from Cameroon where she was imprisoned and tortured due to her support for minority rights of English-speakers in Cameroon. She escaped to the United States and found PAIR, who successfully represented her in immigration court. She is now a hospice worker and has drawn on her own experiences of hardship to establish a deep connection with her patients.
  • The John G. Brooks Public Service Award was presented to PAIR Asylum Attorney Anita Sharma by the Boston Bar Association in October 2006 for her outstanding representation and mentoring, and tireless efforts on behalf of PAIR’s asylum clients.
  • PAIR was presented with the Obunto Award in June 2006 from the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights for PAIR’s “dedicated service to survivors of torture and asylum-seekers, for providing hope to countless individuals and their families, for caring for each individual one at a time”.
  • The New England Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association selected PAIR Asylum Attorney Anita Sharma as Co-Chair of the Liaison Committee on Asylum and former PAIR Detention Attorney Laura Murray Tjan as Co-Chair of the Liaison Committee on Detention in 2006 and 2007.

 

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