Background information
on gender and asylum issues4

Edwidge Danticat, A Crime to Dream, The Nation, May 2, 2005.

Tina Sussman, Long wait for women seeking asylum as U.S. operates in legal vacuum, New York Newsday, March 31, 2005.

Editorial, Fighting Single-Sex Persecution: A Recent Court Ruling Broadens Protections for Women Who Are Fleeing from Cultures That Practice Genital Mutilation, Portland Oregonian, March 29, 2005.

Henry Weinstein, Court Eases Asylum Rule for Genital Mutilation, Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2005.

Libby Lewis, Genital Mutilation Can Be Grounds for Asylum Status, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, March 11, 2005.

Peter Blumberg, Ruling Favors Women Who Seek Asylum, San Francisco Daily Journal, March 11, 2005.

Jane O. Hansen, Ancient Rite or a Wrong? Genital Cutting of Girls Becomes an Issue in Georgia, Nationwide, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 2, 2005.

Anita Sinha and Stephen Knight, Playing the Terror Card, Contra Costa Times, February 14, 2005.

Bob Egelko, Ashcroft Will Pass Asylum Case to Successor, San Francisco Chronicle, January 22, 2005.

Tyche Hendricks, US Court Rules Rape is Grounds for Asylum, San Francisco Chronicle, June 16, 2004, at A1.

Jeff Chorney, Circuit Says Rape Can Be Form of Oppression, The Recorder, June 15, 2004.

Rachel Swarns, Ashcroft Weighs Granting of Political Asylum to Abused Women, The New York Times, March 11, 2004, at A1.

Jennifer Ludden, U.S. Weighs Asylum for Domestic Abuse Victim, National Public Radio, February 20, 2004.

Emily Bazar, Asylum-Seekers Make Gender an Issue, Sacramento Bee, February 9, 2004.

Editorial, Why is the US turning away victims of domestic violence?, Marie Claire, October 2003, at 148.

Thomas Adcock, Shearman Associates Win Asylum Case, New York Law Journal, May 23, 2003

Editorial, Asylum for Abused Women, The New York Times, March 19, 2003, at A26

Stephen Knight, A Safe Haven for Women, Toronto Star, March 7, 2003

George Lardner, Jr., Ashcroft Reconsiders Asylum Granted to Abused Guatemalan, Washington Post, March 3, 2003, at A2.

Karen Musalo and Stephen Knight, Unequal Protection (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Special Issue: Seeking Refuge, Nov/Dec 2002).

Canal Solidario, Interview with CGRS Director Karen Musalo, Nov. 2001

Jason Hoppin, 9th Circuit to Rehear Domestic Abuse Asylum Case, The Recorder (San Francisco), Oct. 24, 2001

Anna Quindlen, Torture Based on Sex Alone, Newsweek, Sept. 10, 2001, at 76

Jim Oliphant, Seeking Shelter, Legal Times (Washington, DC), July 30, 2001, at 1, and "Asylum Law Heads into New Territory,
   The Recorder (San Francisco, CA), July 30, 2001, at 2

Patrick J. McDonnell, Ruling Allows Asylum for Foreign Victims of Abuse, Los Angeles Times, March 22, 2001, at A3

Pamela A. MacLean, Asylum Extended to Victims of Severe Domestic Violence, San Francisco Daily Journal, March 22, 2001, at 1

Jason Hoppin, Family Abuse can Support Asylum Bid, The Recorder (San Francisco), March 22, 2001, at 1

Lisa Margonelli, We Don't Care About Women, Jane Magazine, March 2001

Susan Sachs, Reno Voids Denial of Asylum for Guatemalan Battered Wife, The New York Times, January 20, 2001, at B4

David Cázares, Reno Hands Woman an Edge on Asylum, Sun-Sentinel (Florida), Jan. 19, 2001

Jody Benjamin, Plan Gives Abuse Victims Hope for Asylum, Sun-Sentinel, December 17, 2000

Bernice Yeung, Should the U.S. Give Asylum to Victims of Domestic Violence?, SF Weekly, Oct. 25, 2000

Michael Joe, "When a Woman's Love Becomes a Political Issue," The Recorder (San Francisco), October 11, 2000

Ken Ellingwood, Bahraini Sheikha can Stay in U.S., Royal Family Says, Los Angeles Times, A8, July 25, 2000

Judy Mann, A Desperate Woman Is Denied Asylum, Washington Post, February 2, 2000

Barbara Bradley, Asylum Denied to Jordanian Woman who will be Killed for Her Family's Honor if She Returns,
    National Public Radio, January 14, 2000.

Editorial, "Give Them Shelter, Now!", Glamour, page 179, December 1999

Frederic Tulsky, Abused Woman is Denied Asylum, The Washington Post, A1, June 20, 1999

Susan Sachs, Women Newly Seeking Asylum, The New York Times, Week in Review, August 1, 1999

Sheryl McCarthy, No Activism, No Asylum, Ms. Magazine, October/November 1999 (pp. 21-22)