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R.S.A.A. et al v. Denmark
The Committee makes the following recommendations to the State party: (a) Concerning the author of the communication and her daughters: (i) Reopen their asylum case, taking into account the Committee’s views; (ii) Refrain from forcibly returning them to Jordan, where they would be exposed to a real, personal and foreseeable risk of severe forms of gender-based violence. (b) General: (i) Take all measures necessary to ensure that victims of gender-based forms of persecution who are in need of protection, regardless of their status or residence, are not returned under any circumstance to any country in which their life would be at risk or where they might be subjected to gender-based violence or to torture or ill-treatment; (ii) Ensure that the threshold for accepting asylum applications is measured not against the probability but against the reasonable likelihood that the claimant has a well-founded fear of persecution or that she would be exposed to persecution upon her return; (iii) Ensure that women asylum seekers have timely information on the importance of the first interview and what constitutes relevant information in that context; (iv) Ensure that, whenever necessary, examiners use all the means at their disposal to produce and/or verify the necessary evidence in support of the application, including by seeking and gathering information from reliable governmental and non-governmental sources on human rights in the country of origin, in particular relating to the situation of women and girls, and taking all necessary measures in that regard; (v) Ensure, when interpreting all legally recognized grounds for asylum, the classification of claims for asylum on the basis of gender under the grounds of membership of a particular social group, where necessary, and consider adding sex and/or gender and other status to the list of grounds for refugee status in national asylum legislation; 15 July 2019 | Judicial Body: UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) | Document type: Case Law | Legal Instrument: 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) | Topic(s): Domestic violence - Forced marriage - Gender-based persecution - Women's rights | Countries: Denmark - Jordan - Palestine, State of |
Raziyeh Rezaifar v. Denmark
Advance unedited version 10 April 2017 | Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Domestic violence - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) - Prostitution / Commercial sex work - Residence permits / Residency | Countries: Denmark - Iran, Islamic Republic of - Italy |
2016 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Denmark
3 March 2017 | Publisher: United States Department of State | Document type: Annual Reports |
Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Denmark
15 August 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) | Document type: Concluding Observations |
2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Denmark
13 April 2016 | Publisher: United States Department of State | Document type: Annual Reports |
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 40 of the Covenant pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, Sixth periodic reports of States parties due in 2013 : Denmark
10 November 2015 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) | Document type: States Parties Reports |
2014 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Denmark
25 June 2015 | Publisher: United States Department of State | Document type: Annual Reports |
FGM and asylum in Europe
May 2015 | Publisher: Refugee Studies Centre | Document type: Thematic Reports |
2013 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Denmark
27 February 2014 | Publisher: United States Department of State | Document type: Annual Reports |
2012 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Denmark
19 April 2013 | Publisher: United States Department of State | Document type: Annual Reports |