Essays about: "female refugees"

Showing result 16 - 18 of 18 essays containing the words female refugees.

  1. 16. Trafficked Women as Refugees. Sexually exploited women as 'members of a particular social group' under International Refugee Law.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Diana Trimiño; [2008]
    Keywords : International Human Rights Law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This study aims to revise the possibility of interpreting the 1951 Refugee Convention to include female trafficked victims who might suffer from persecution if deported back to their home countries, in the definition if the Convention as members of a 'particular social group'. Trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation is one of the most profitable 'markets' in the globalised world. READ MORE

  2. 17. The Second Sex - A Feminist Analysis of International and Swedish Refugee Law

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Sandra Nilsson; [2006]
    Keywords : Folkrätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis is written from a feminist perspective examining female asylum-seekers in international and Swedish refugee law. The question for this thesis is whether the refugee instruments are gender-sensitive and give women and men equal access to protection. READ MORE

  3. 18. Separated children seeking asylum - with focus on the evidentiary assessment within Swedish refugee law.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Stina Lempert; [2003]
    Keywords : Folkrätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Separated children are children under 18, who are outside their country of origin and have been separated from their parents, or other previous legal/customary primary caregiver. Although the reasons for these children's separation from their primary caregiver may vary, the phenomenon is not a recent occurrence. READ MORE