Jayne has represented torture survivors and asylum seekers from throughout the world, and she has extensive experience working with traumatized children who have suffered violence, displacement, and family separation. She has handled and supervised dozens of asylum cases, and many of these have helped move the law forward in the area of gender- based violence. In April 2. 01. 6, Jayne and the Middle East team also began developing a project to serve refugees stranded on the Greek islands. Asylum Practice The following represent some of Jayne. Ashcroft (2. 00. 4), Jayne convinced the Ninth Circuit that the systematic rape of women during the Guatemalan civil war was not merely criminal conduct, but also a weapon of war used for political purposes. Asylum is sought for a variety of. If you have already applied for. Political Asylum Emergency Representation Program. Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Robert Rubin, Ignatius Bau, San Francisco Lawyers' Committee for Urban Affairs, San Francisco. Given the political context, women survivors were entitled to assert asylum claims. Human rights experts hailed the court. In January 2. 00. Jayne represented an Albanian teen who was held hostage for a month, subjected to daily rapes, and . The court said the attempted trafficking was a . After launching a national advocacy campaign supported by several human rights organizations, Jayne successfully mediated the case in the Second Circuit. In April 2. 00. 6, Jayne represented a Congolese woman imprisoned for six weeks and subjected to daily rapes. The Fifth Circuit had rejected her appeal on the ground that her torture was not politically motivated. Jayne filed a motion to reopen based on new evidence, and she launched an advocacy campaign with the help of several human rights organizations. This campaign led to thousands of letters reaching the desk of then- U. S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Shortly thereafter, the government joined in Jayne. In 2. 00. 7, Jayne represented a Honduran woman who was subjected to child abuse and gang violence. Well aware that winning the case would be an uphill battle, Jayne flew to Honduras to meet with experts, wrote multiple briefs and declarations, and devoted hundreds of hours to witness interviews. The client was ultimately granted asylum on humanitarian grounds. In 2. 00. 9, Jayne won asylum for a 1. Guatemala who was persecuted because of her indigenous origin. She also achieved stipulated resolution in a case on behalf of a 1. Guatemala who was subjected to extreme family violence and sexual abuse. In these cases and others, Jayne was able to provide the U. S. In 2. 01. 0, Jayne won a significant asylum case in San Francisco Immigration Court on behalf of an 1. Honduras at the age of seven with her cousin, when their family had been targeted for death by gangs. These cases are traditionally hard to win, because of circuit court precedent that says that resistance to gang recruitment is not a basis for asylum. In 2. 01. 1, she won four more cases, gaining protection for a teenage boy from Honduras, who was subjected to extreme sexual exploitation; securing safety for an HIV- positive woman, who was subjected to extreme domestic violence and abuse; preventing the deportation of a woman from Liberia, who suffered domestic violence and abuse; and winning asylum for a gay man from Morocco, who feared prosecution for refusing to hide his sexual orientation. In 2. 01. 2, Jayne won asylum for a gay man from Guinea who was subjected to a public stoning after he rejected a forced marriage and came out about his homosexual status. She also won asylum for a domestic violence survivor from Honduras, and she achieved victories for two asylum seekers who suffered sexual violence in Haiti. In 2. 01. 3, Jayne maintained her winning streak by securing asylum victories for a torture survivor from Syria and another client from Haiti. She also successfully represented the mother of an HIV- positive asylum seeker who died in ICE detention, because he was wrongfully denied access to his medication and other adequate medical treatment. Jayne also obtained humanitarian parole for a young man gang- raped in 2. Haiti by UN peacekeepers from Uruguay, allowing him to re- settle in the United States and receive much- needed psychological care. In 2. 01. 4, Jayne rallied more than a hundred doctors, lawyers, aid workers, and government officials in three nations to help a young Honduran mother and her 2- year- old child obtain life- saving medical care after they. By the end of 2. 01. Jayne. To date, Jayne and the pro bono team at Reed Smith have brought 6. Haitian clients to permanent safety in the United States and Canada. In January 2. 01. Jayne launched a new humanitarian protection project in the Middle East to identify refugees who have suffered persecution or torture, and relocate them to places where they may heal and restart their lives. Currently, 3. 1 Reed Smith lawyers and five paralegals in 1. Middle East Protection project. In 2. 01. 6, Jayne and the Middle East team have begun developing a project to serve refugees stranded on the Greek islands. Haiti Projects. Haiti Humanitarian Protection Project. In 2. 01. 0, Haiti experienced an earthquake that killed more than 2. She formed a team of world- class doctors and lawyers, flew to Haiti, and documented not only a natural disaster, but a human rights catastrophe as well. Gangs of men were raping women and girls in camps, public baths, and on the streets. Local NGOs lacked resources to help the victims; government services were nonexistent. Between 2. 01. 0 and 2. Jayne traveled to Haiti 3. UN, and build cases. By becoming a partner of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the ground in Haiti, Jayne and her teams played a key role in identifying and protecting women and girls at the highest risk of harm. Jayne worked closely in partnership with two of the oldest women. Jayne led Reed Smith in being the first legal team to file applications for humanitarian parole for Haitian victims of sexual violence with the U. S. Department of Homeland Security. Reed Smith is also the only law firm that partnered with UNHCR to evacuate victims of sexual violence to Canada. To date, Jayne and the pro bono team at Reed Smith have brought 6. Haitian clients to permanent safety in the United States and Canada. Campaign to Eliminate Violence against Women. Reed Smith. In addition to the Humanitarian Protection work, Jayne has led several other initiatives at Reed Smith for Haiti, including a multifaceted campaign for the elimination of violence against women in Haiti. Components of this continuing campaign include the following: In late 2. Jayne organized a Working Group on Media Protocols on Sexual Gender- Based Violence (SGBV) in Haiti in Support of UN Campaign to Eliminate Violence against Women. Working with Haitian reporters, the Haitian Ministry of Women, the head of the French Press Agency in Haiti, and more than 2. NGOs focused on the protection of women and girls, Jayne and lawyers from Reed Smith. This report was supplemented by the recommendations arising out of a roundtable discussion held by a panel of media experts in London. In December 2. 01. Reed Smith lawyers went to Haiti to run a conference on the topic of SGBV, in partnership with SOS Journalists, a coalition of Haitian journalists. More than 5. 0 people attended, and speakers included the new Minister for Women, a Haitian Judge and Prosecutor, as well as representatives from the World Bank, BAI, MADRE and Digital Democracy. Attendees agreed that there is a need for guidelines specific to SGBV. Lobbying is now also underway for the insertion of a section on ethical reporting specific to this in the new Code of Ethics for journalists in Haiti, which was released by UNESCO in the same week as the conference. Recognizing that Haiti. In January 2. 01. Trust. Law, a Thomson Reuters Foundation service, entitled, . Reed Smith represented Haiti Takes Root in forging this unique partnership between The French and Haitian governments, The Parker Foundation, and Sean Penn (for Haiti Takes Root). To make it possible, Jayne led nine Reed Smith attorneys in six offices who worked on the initiative throughout the year in Haiti, France, and the United States, negotiating and drafting the complex, cross- border, project documents. The firm also hosted multiple expert meetings in Paris and Haiti, participated in discussions with the World Bank, and rallied support from the Yale School of Forestry. The initiative was formally launched at the 2. UN Climate Change Conference (COP2. Paris. The Patricia Fleming Fund. In 2. 00. 6, Jayne independently established The Patricia Fleming Fund in memory of her mother. This nonprofit raises money to help clients relocate from tent camps to safe houses; provides education grants for children impacted by violence; and pays for emergency medical care, food and clean water for all of her client families. All funds donated to her Patricia Fleming Fund are used to protect and support Haitian women and children living on less than $1 a day. Middle East Protection Project Building on her successes in Haiti and Latin America, Jayne launched a new human rights project in the Middle East in January 2. The goal of the project is to identify Syrian and Iraqi refugees who have suffered persecution or torture, and relocate them to places where they may heal. So far, Jayne has led teams on four separate missions to interview refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraqi Kurdistan. The teams have conducted nearly 1. Like in the United States, Central America and Haiti, many of the firm. Four clients are confined to a women. The firm is developing relocation strategies outside of their country. Several other clients are living in hiding because they fear rape or other forms of sexual exploitation. Many are children who are suffering war trauma. Currently, 3. 1 Reed Smith lawyers and five paralegals in 1. Middle East Protection project. Our pro bono clients include single mothers from Syria and Iraq, a 6. Bedouin community of Kuwait, three women at risk of murder by . Although they are from many different places, our clients are all victims of sexual, gender- based violence or other forms of torture.
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