Center for Gender and Refugee Studies

From Cornell Law Library's InSite current
awareness service, June 20, 2005:

"The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS)
provides legal expertise and resources to attorneys
representing women asylum-seekers fleeing gender
-related harm, at both the practice and policy levels,
and seeks to track decisions in these cases. CGRS also
works to co-ordinate legal and public policy advocacy
efforts through domestic and international networking,
and engages in public education efforts in order to con-
tribute to the formulation of national and international
policy and practice.

Researchers will appreciate the Center’s site for its
summaries of gender asylum cases and compilations
of decisions by immigration judges, the Board of Immi-
gration Appeals (BIA), and U.S. Federal courts of
appeal. This section also provides a selection of
international gender asylum case law; governmental
gender guidelines; UNHCR and other UN documents;
and a select bibliography of scholarly articles and news
on gender and asylum. Sample briefs in gender
asylum cases are also available."