PRO ASYL Press Release
7. March 2003
8. March 2003: International Women’s Day
PRO ASYL: Protection of victims of gender
specific persecution must be guaranteed legally
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„The parties controversy on the Immigration Law may not be settled at expense of the victims of gender specific persecution“, demands Mrs. Marei Pelzer, speaker of PRO ASYL, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day on March 8th. In the Immigration Bill critically judged by PRO ASYL in many respects has been created for the first time an adequate legal basis for the protection of gender specific persecution. PRO ASYL regrets, that the quarrel about the Immigration Law is preventing the introduction of an adequate regulation so far. The Christian Democrats are agitating against the bridging of the existing protection gap…
Women aren’t persecuted only because of their opposing political activities. Often serious maltreatments are threatening them due to violations of behaviour rules , to which they are subjected as women only. Certain persecution activities, like genital mutilation, coercive abortion, coercive marriage or forced sterilization – are part of the draconian human rights violations which primarily force women to flee.
„Every minimization of the fate of women, who suffer from gender specific persecution, is out of place. Instead of withholding the necessary protection from the victims, legal security must be granted to them finally“, so Marei Pelzer.
