In this Open Letter to all 145 countries parties to the UN Refugee Convention Astrid Menasanch Tobieson and Denise Olsson demand revisions to the convention. They point to the fact that women are not included linguistically in the convention and ask the question: Did you really forget us? Since we believe that gender equality isn’t guaranteed, neither in practice nor theory in the corresponding 145 states, we demand that a revision is made of The Refugee Convention and Protocol. We demand that women who are forced into refuge shall be acknowledged as Refugees in Article 1 of the Convention. Hence we suggest the following amendment, change he, him, his to gender neutral words such as a person, the person, a persons. feministisktperspektiv.se/2013/10/23/you-forgot-the-women/
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:44:10 +0000
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