LUXEMBOURG, June 11 — Women refugees adopting the European Union’s principle of gender equality can be considered deserving of asylum status, the European Court of Justice...
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The decision requires such women — including minors — to show they “genuinely” hold that principle dear after lengthy stays in an EU country, and that adhering to it clashes with norms in their country of origin. They stated that they therefore feared “being exposed to a risk of persecution due to the identity which they have formed in the Netherlands,” according to the EU court’s statement.When Dutch authorities rejected that new application, the Iraqi women took the case to court in the Netherlands and it was kicked up to the European Court of Justice to decide interpretation of refugee law in this matter.
That persecution is limited to grounds of race, nationality, religious or political convictions — or membership of a special social group, such as LGBTQ communities, or women who have not undergone female genital mutilation in societies valuing FGM.
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