Can a woman who fears that she, or her infant daughter, will be genitally mutilated if she returns to her country claim refugee status?
In France, Canada and the United States, it has been officially recognised that genital mutilation represents a form of persecution and that women who fear genital mutilation in their countries do have a real claim to refugee status. In one case, a women who feared persecution in her country because of her refusal to inflict genital mutilation on her infant daughter was recognised as a refugee.
