New Issue of IJRL

A special issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (IJRL) has been published on gender. Contents of vol. 36, nos. 1-2, March/June 2024 include:

• Editorial: Special Issue on Gender [extract]
• Afghan Women Are Under Threat from the Taliban: A Great Test of the Turkish Government and the Courts [open access]
• Aligning United States Law with International Norms Would Remove Major Barriers to Protection in Gender Claims [abstract] [SSRN]
• Fleeing a Well-Founded Fear of Persecution to Be Persecuted Again? The Case of LGBTIQ+ Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Uganda [abstract]
• Constitutionalizing Protection for Refugee Women and Girls in South Asia [abstract]
• The Gender- and Sexuality-Based Harms of Refugee Externalization: A Role for Human Rights Due Diligence [abstract]
• Rape Myths in the European Court of Human Rights’ Non-Refoulement Case Law on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence [abstract] (Note: A postprint of this article has been deposited in the Forced Migration Research Archive & will become available post-embargo on 30 Nov. 2025.)
• Gender in European Union Asylum Law: The Istanbul Convention as a Game Changer? [abstract]
• Resisting Domestic Violence [open access]
• ‘There should be equality in opinions’: Political Opinion in Intimate Partner Violence Claims [abstract]

Also included are case summaries, a book review, the most recent Note on International Protection, and the full-texts of two additional documents: the Refugee Law Initiative Declaration on International Protection in the context of Disasters and Climate Change and its accompanying paper.

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