The CGRS (Center for Gender and Refugee Studies) reports that in the case of “Matter of KESG” (KESG = initials of the Salvadoran woman seeking asylum) the Board of Immigration Appeals ruled against asylum.
Legal precedent over decades established that women are targeted and persecuted b/c they are women.
This case decision seeks to provide a case precedent that:
1. Women are not recognizable as a Particular Social Group (one of five proofs to seek asylum along with race, religion, nationality, and political opinion).
2. there is no such thing as gender-based persecution
The lawyers on the call from CGRS, Tahirih, ANAR (Afghan), and Harvard state emphatically that each case is made on a case-by-case basis and we should continue to recognize that women and girls are eligible for asylum.
Read more about the history of gender-based asylum here.
The CGRS Press Release is here
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