{"id":67090,"date":"2024-10-04T23:42:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2024\/oct\/04\/eu-court-rules-gender-and-nationality-enough-to-grant-afghan-women-asylum"},"modified":"2024-10-04T23:42:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:42:26","slug":"eu-court-rules-gender-and-nationality-enough-to-grant-afghan-women-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67090","title":{"rendered":"EU court rules gender and nationality enough to grant Afghan women asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ECJ ruling follows Afghan women\u2019s challenge to Austrian court refusal to give them refugee status<\/p>\n<p>The European court of justice (ECJ) has ruled that gender and nationality alone are sufficient grounds for a country to grant asylum to women from Afghanistan, where the ruling Taliban have sharply curtailed women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Austria refused refugee status to two Afghan women after they applied for asylum in 2015 and 2020. The women challenged the refusal before the Austrian supreme administrative court, which in turn requested a ruling from the ECJ, the top European Union court.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2024\/oct\/04\/eu-court-rules-gender-and-nationality-enough-to-grant-afghan-women-asylum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECJ ruling follows Afghan women\u2019s challenge to Austrian court refusal to give them refugee statusThe European court of justice (ECJ) has ruled that gender and nationality alone are sufficient grounds for a country to grant asylum to women from Afghanis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2334,221,530,86,494,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-court-of-justice-of-the-european-union","category-europe","category-european-union","category-law","category-refugees","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67091,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67090\/revisions\/67091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}