Topic
FGM
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Female Genital Mutilation: Also a Problem in the United States
Salon.com: Our daughters should not be cut, by Lynn Harris:Female genital mutilation isn't just a problem in other countries. It's happening here, and we need to face it FGM in…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Uganda Bans Female Genital Mutilation
Time Magazine: Uganda Outlaws Female Circumcision: (KAMPALA, Uganda) — Uganda's parliament has approved a bill banning female genital mutilation.Ministerof Ethics and Integrity James Nsaba Buturo said that the new law,passed…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Immigration Articles
Cahan, Miriam R. Note. An impossible choice: denial of parent's derivative asylum claims based on their citizen daughter's risk of female genital mutilation. 8 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
9th Circuit allows FGM Case to go Forward
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed a Northern California family whose daughter underwent forced circumcision in Indonesia to seek political asylum in the United States. The court criticized…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Ninth Circuit’s Latest on FGM
The Ninth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge McKeown (joined by Judges Fletcher and Smith), ruled today that "[t]he BIA’s determination concerning the persecution Annisa suffered when she was forced…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Uganda Moves to Ban Female Genital Mutilation
Salon.com (Broadsheet): Uganda to outlaw female genital mutilation, by Lynn Harris: Let's make sure this one doesn't get lost in this week's Palin/Jackson shuffle: Uganda has moved to outlaw female…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Latest from the BIA on FGM
Matter of A-T-, 25 I&N Dec. 4 (BIA 2009) Interim Decision #3644, Decided June 4, 2009:(1) Requests for asylum or withholding of removal premised on past persecution related to female genital…
ImmigrationProf Blog
FGM Victims Talk
The Washington Post has a story about asylum-seekers who suffered actual or feared gemale gemnital mutilation: "The women's stories all begin with a searing childhood memory they cannot describe without…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Big FGM Victory in Second Circuit!
In a scathing opinion, a federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday that immigration judges and the appellate system established as a check on their decisions committed “obvious errors”…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Court of Appeals Judges Blast DOJ Attorney in Female Genital Mutilation Case
The Associated Press reports that federal judges grew increasingly impatient and sometimes angry last week as they questioned government lawyers on why the United States denied asylum to three women…