The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has already approved guidelines aimed at persuading governments to make decisions on asylum requests in a way which guarantees adequate attention for women within the procedures for determining refugee status, and that applications for reasons of gender should be recognised as such. What we are ultimately talking about is genuinely protecting,, the human rights of women at international level, and we have the instruments.
Voglio poi precisare che, quando parlo di persecuzione, mi riferisco ad aggressioni gravi, non a cose di poco conto: parlo di lapidazioni, mutilazioni genitali, messe al rogo, mutilazioni con acido, crimini d’ onore, matrimoni forzati, schiavitù e sfruttamento sessuale.