Women are Human: Gender-Based Persecution is a Human Rights Violation Against Women
Author(s)
Warren, Priscilla
Abstract
Violence against women, and specifically intimate violence, is increasingly being recognized as a human rights violation. This article explores the existing U.S. immigration and asylum law regarding gender-related persecution. It describes the existing international and U.S. law as it relates to women seeking refuge from gender-based persecution in their homeland. This article looks at the limitations of current U.S. law relating to victims of gender-based persecution and the necessity of incorporating existing international laws, which do provide some protection to victims of gender-based persecution, into U.S. immigration and asylum law.
