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Background information
on gender and asylum issues

Join CGRS's network to receive updates on campaigns, events and gender asylum issues

CGRS may be able to assist you in finding an appropriate expert witness for your gender case. Our country condition research memos (search here) routinely include contact information for experts.

Some of our materials relevant to working with experts include:

  • Using Expert Witnesses for Asylum Cases in Immigration Court, 82 Interpreter Releases 1237 (Aug. 1, 2005) [(c) 2005 West, a Thomson business. Posted here by permission]
  • The gender motivation of domestic violence, Affidavit by UC Berkeley Law Prof. Nancy Lemon
  • Domestic violence in Guatemala, Affidavit by human rights award winning women's rights lawyer and activist Hilda Morales
  • Past genital cutting as severe and ongoing harm, Affidavit by author and FGC expert Hanny Lightfoot-Klein

To request a copy of any of these materials, and/or our assistance with country research, please fill out this form, including information about the case and expertise needed.

Advisories

CGRS has developed a series of advisories on specific legal and factual issues that arise in gender-asylum cases, including the one-year bar to asylum, claims involving domestic violence, female genital cutting, forced marriage, and gang violence, as well as issues specific to claims involving children and LGBT individuals.  If you would like to request one of these advisories, please submit a request for assistance here.

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