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- <text id=93TT2494>
- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: Female Refuge
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- WORLD
- Female Refuge
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Canada considers granting refugee status to persecuted women
- </p>
- <p> Is the maltreatment of women as a matter of cultural practice
- tantamount to political persecution? Yes, say opposition M.P.s
- and feminist groups demanding that Canada grant refugee status
- to victims of sex-based persecution. The debate ensnared
- Immigration Minister Bernard Valcourt, who reversed a decision
- denying asylum to a Saudi woman who said she feared punishment
- for refusing to wear a veil if she returned home. Valcourt now
- promises new guidelines to encompass women whose governments
- fail to protect them from domestic violence or persecution.
- Women's rights advocates insist that Canada go further and
- become the first country to enshrine in law refuge for abused
- women.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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