A Tale of Two Women: The Claims for Asylum of Fauziya Kassindja, Who Fled FGC, and Rody Alvarado, a Survivor of Partner (Domestic) Abuse

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Karen Musalo, CGRS Director, reflects on the different treatments of asylum claims based on FGC from domestic violence in US law, and the intersection of these issues with the controversy between universality of human rights and cultural relativism. Read the full book chapter here!