PRO ASYL Presseerklärung | Press Release
March 6, 1999
International Women’s Day on March 8th, 1999
PRO ASYL demands better protection of persecuted women and regard of gender specific grounds of persecution in the asylum procedure
„To use broad assent in protection of persecuted women!“
- Internationaler Frauentag am 8. März 1999
PRO ASYL fordert besseren Schutz verfolgter Frauen und Berücksichtigung geschlechtsspezifischer Verfolgungsgründe im Asylverfahren“
Breiten Konsens zum Schutz verfolgter Frauen nutzen!“ - International Women’s Day on March 8th, 1999
PRO ASYL demands better protection of persecuted women and regard of gender specific grounds of persecution in the asylum procedure
„To use broad assent in protection of persecuted women!“
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On the occasion of the International Women’s Day on March 8 confirms the Nation-wide Human Rights Organisation for Refugees PRO ASYL the demand, finally to consider gender specific forms of persecution in the asylum procedure and to make the protection of persecuted women to a common main issue of German politics.
For this the general parliamentary group initiative of March 9 in 1989, passed unanimously by the Federal Parliament 1990, offers a solid basis. Hardly any of these demands passed exactly 10 years ago has been put into practice till now, said the PRO ASYL spokesperson Heiko Kauffmann: „The new Coalition must seize their opportunity now and based on this implement the decisions of the Executive Committees of the UNHCR and the decisions of the meeting of the female ministers of June 1997. „A clarification in the Aliens Act must take into account the wide spread social and political assent to a better protection of persecuted women and their reception in Germany!“
World-wide are millions of women alone due to their gender exposed to systematically used force, persecution and torture, which in the procedure for eligibility of refugee status still played a subordinate part.
