Annotation:
This site contains the substantive, procedural and/or evidentiary guidelines, either implemented or proposed, for the adjudication of asylum claims based on gender related persecution. Countries surveyed include Australia, Canada, the European Union, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These guidelines tend to address issues of violence or discrimination against women constituting violations of international law. The need for modified evidentiary and procedural requirements that take into consideration both the particular nature of women asylum-seekers' claims and various cross-cultural barriers to their adjudication are also recognized in several of the gender guidelines found on the site. [Descriptors: Migration - Refugees and Immigration, International]