Case-law: Commission de recours de réfugiés (Refugees' appeals committee), 164078, 19.09.1991 (France)

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Šalis: France

Section:

Female Genital Mutilation

Temos:

Health, Violence

Types of GBV:

Female Genital Mutilation

The information was last updated in 2013 and may not accurately represent the present situation. It makes a reference to the United Kingdom as a member of the European Union and was published before the UK's withdrawal from the European Union on the 31 January 2020.

Refugee status (full-right, permanent)

Asylum Provisions

Definition of 'refugee' in asylum law

Act n°1952-893 referred to the definition held in article 1, A2 of the Geneva Convention (1951), that considers a refugee any person "owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it". The status can also be granted upon the HCR mandate.

Definition of 'particular social group' and type(s) of persecution addressed

Girls and women at risk and intending to escape FGM

Number of asylum cases requested on the ground of FGM

First reported

Number of asylum cases granted on the ground of FGM

Denied

Source

Lacaze, F. (2006), Mutilations Sexuelles Féminines et Droit d’asile: Derrière les discours, une politique de stigmatisation toujours à l’œuvre, Recueil Alexandries.