“New Policy Permits Asylum for Battered Women”
July 15, 2009– “The Obama administration has opened the way for foreign women who are victims of severe domestic beatings and sexual abuse to receive asylum in the United States. The action reverses a Bush administration stance in a protracted and passionate legal battle over the possibilities for battered women to become refugees.” Click here to read the rest of this NY Times article by Julia Preston.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/us/16asylum.html?_r=2&th&emc=th
