Generoa, errefuxiatu estatutua eta gizarte talde jakina nazioartean: ikusezina nola azaleratu

Abstract

Gender has a conflictive relationship with the International Refugee Law system. The 1951 Geneva Convention and the 1967 New York Protocol have not considered gender as a motive of persecution to grant asylum, so its interpretation has been introduced through additional legal instruments in the international, regional and national frameworks. Moreover, gender has always been linked to the particular social group ground, which is the least defined reason of persecution. The lack of concretion of the concept has rendered more difficult the correct evaluation of gender-based asylum petitions. In addition to that, gender has only been subtly linked to the rest of the motives of the Convention, and the inclusion of gender perspective in the whole International Refugee Law system has been arduous, which provides further difficulties for women in their asylum petitions.