HUMA KAMGAR: GENDER BASED ASYLUM (GREEN CARD)IN THE UNITED STATES FOR WOMEN

Friday, October 12, 2012

Examples of gender -based persecution of women in Pakistan.

GENDER BASED PERSECUTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN PAKISTAN.

Fourteen years old girl shot in the head at close range by the Pakistan Talibans because she wants to go to school!!!! instead she goes to the hospital with brain damage.

I AM MALALA

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57530331/malala-yousufzais-brain-damaged-in-taliban-attack-in-pakistan-surgeon-says/

http://cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2012/10/10/sayah-2011-interview-malala-yousufzai.cnn

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Eleven year old christian girl with learning disabilities accused by Muslim IMAM for burning Quran????? and be sentenced to death?

I AM RIMSHA

"Rimsha" is escorted to a helicopter after being released form jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 8 September 2012

The girl, known as Rimsha, was arrested on 16 August on charges of blasphemy

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/2012/10/12/pakistan-christian-teen-accused-blasphemy/fbDGOSRVymBR7XeT6zMjHP/story.html

http://rt.com/news/pakistan-jail-christian-girl-593/

http://www.christianpost.com/news/detention-of-pakistani-christian-girl-extended-in-blasphemy-case-80894/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19397884

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Asiya Bibi, 45, A Christian woman in Pakistan sentenced to death in blasphemy case

I AM ASIYA

http://linenonthehedgerow.blogspot.com/2010/12/kill-asia-bibi-call.html

http://www.amenews.org/AppealforAsia.htm

http://blog.proofdirectory.org/2012/09/asia-bibi/

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Battle of christian Woman Hanifan Bibi, 37, in pakistan for religious freedom.

I AM HANIFAN BIBI

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Faisalabad,-the-battle-of-a-Christian-woman-for-her-family-and-religious-freedom-24386.html

http://www.persecution.org/2012/03/31/pakistan-christian-woman-fights-for-her-family-and-her-religious-freedom/

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Julie Aftab, 16 years old Christian Woman Burned With Acid In Pakistan.,

I AM JULIE

http://www.guidrynews.com/story.aspx?id=1000018571

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/julie-aftab-woman-feels-closer-to-god-after-acid-attack_n_1665112.html

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/an-insult-to-islam-pakistani-acid-attack-victim-describes-horrific-assault-she-faced-over-her-christian-faith/

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Honor killing of girls as a form of extreme gender based persecution
Honour killings belong to a group of violent crimes that primarily target women,

I AM SHAFILEA AHMED
and I did not want to marry my first cousin.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/honor-killing-pakistani-parents-found-guilty-of-suffocating-teenage-daughter-who-refused-forced-marriage-to-her-1st-cousin/

http://theweek.com/article/index/225998/pakistans-escalating-honor-killing-problem

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/20/world/asia/pakistan-honor-confession/index.html

Pakistani Parents of Shafilea Ahmed Found Guilty of Murdering Her

Pakistani Parents of Shafilea Ahmed Found Guilty of Murdering Her

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Honor Killing: Pakistani Man kills his “Six Daughters” for Honor

http://khap-honorkilling.blogspot.com/2011/07/honor-killing-pakistani-man-kills-his.html

http://www.aquila-style.com/focus-points/honour-killings/

Beheaded womem killed for family honor

Preparation for stoning

http://tristanatwood.wordpress.com/how-valuable-is-family-honor/

Amputating the woman or girl's nose as a form of punishment in Pakistan for women.

http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/2625

Rape, Mutilation: Pakistan's
Tribal Justice for Women

http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/2625

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/454117.stm

Honour killing can be defined as a form of extreme status anxiety and a manifestation of a culture of male domination and sexual repression

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Even muslim women are not spared from acid attacks to mutilate their faces when they seek basic human rights.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17676542

I AM FAKHRA YOUNUS

Before and after the acid attack

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/03/acid-attack-survivor-pakistan-photo.html

Acid Attack Victim Fakhra Yunus Commits Suicide

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/victim-acid-attack-commits-suicide/story?id=16011971

PHOTO: Pakistani acid victim Fakhra Yunus is seen before and after her attack in this undated video

PHOTO: Pakistani acid victim Fakhra Yunus is seen before and after her attack in this undated video

This is just a small compilation of the research work conducted by Attorney Huma Kamgar to help the women victims of various forms of extreme and inhuman abuses and persecution simply because of their gender as a woman or girl.

For more information and to inquire about the opportunity to be a part of this research and dissemination of awareness

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If you or you know someone who needs help in immigration matters and has been a victim of any form of gender based persecution please contact

LAW OFFFICE OF HUMA KAMGAR, ESQ.,
305 BROADWAY
NEW YORK, NY 10007
212-323-6887

please visit : www.asylumanddeportation.com

MALALA YOUSUFZAI CASE IS A CLEAR PICTURE OF GENDER BASED PERSECUTION OF WOMEN IN PAKISTAN!

I AM MALALA YOUSUFZAI......

SHOULD MALALA BE GRANTED GENDER-BASED ASYLUM IN THE UNITED STATES?

THE ANSWER IS YES:

Please click on the following links to learn about MALALA's severe persecution in the hands of pakistan extremist militant group which the government of her country is unable or un willing to control or stop.....Malala spoke out for the basic human right to education for girls and was shot in the head at close range by the extremists in Pakistan. Amazingly she survived but we dont know her prognosis yet.
Please click on the following links to learn about this horrific event and what the supporters of Malala have to say...

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/11/14373656-i-am-malala-declare-protesters-as-vigils-continue-for-14-year-old-pakistani-girl-shot-by-the-taliban?lite

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/10/opinion/ghitis-malala-yousufzai/index.html

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/pakistan/121009/malala-yousafzai-who-she

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/international/12-Oct-2012/my-small-video-star-fights-for-her-life

http://news.yahoo.com/conversations-malala-yousafzai-girl-stood-taliban-133500248.html

http://news.yahoo.com/conversations-malala-yousafzai-girl-stood-taliban-133500248.html

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Thousands+rally+Pakistani+teen+blogger+Malala+Yousafzai+Taliban+promise+death+with+photos+video/7377858/story.html

If one Malala is so potent and strong to place the chief of the Taliban order her killed while he is still in HIDING then we can imagine what will happen if every girl and woman in pakistan becomes a MALALA!
The act of shooting in the head the innocent, young and beautiful girl is to render her brain damaged and or paralized so she cannot speak out or write for her passion on girl education in islam. It is an attempt to terrify other young girls to be submissive, obedient and not learn know or voice their basic human right to education.
Who has ever heard of killing a child because the child wants to go to school??????

IF ONE MALALA DIES A MILLION WILL BE BORN.

Malala and other similarly situated girls desrve political asylum protection and green card to permanently and safely live in the United states and continue their work freely.

Huma Kamgar
Attorney At Law
305 Broadway
14th floor
New york, NY 10007

Please call 212-323-6887 for a complimentary telephonic consultation.

Please visit :www.asylumanddeportation.com

Thursday, September 27, 2012

President Obama issued an Executive Order on Preventing and Responding to Violence Against Women and Girls Globally.

In august 2012, President Obama publicly showed his support to continue the struggle to stop violence against women by issuance of an Executive Order. The Executive Order requires enhanced coordination of the United States’ efforts through the creation of an interagency working group, co-chaired by Secretary of State Clinton and USAID Administrator Shah, designed to leverage our country’s tremendous expertise and capacity to prevent and respond to gender-based violence globally as well as establish a coordinated, government-wide approach to address this terrible reality.
The Executive Order directs Federal agencies to implement a new strategy, developed by USAID and the State Department. The four objectives of the strategy to prevent and respond to gender-based violence globally are to: (1) increase coordination of gender-based violence prevention and response efforts among United States Government agencies and with other stakeholders; (2) enhance integration of gender-based violence prevention and response efforts into existing United States Government work; (3) improve collection, analysis, and use of data and research to enhance gender-based violence prevention, and response efforts; and (4) enhance and expand United States Government programming that addresses gender-based violence.
The Executive Order also requires that the work is evaluated in line with the Administration’s focus on data collection and research. Recognizing that this is a long-term commitment, the Executive Order directs the interagency working group to update or revise the strategy after three years.
Our commitment to ending violence against women and girls is both a foreign policy priority and a domestic policy priority. The United States has made tremendous progress on violence against women and girls domestically since the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 1994. Since the passage of the Act, annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by more than 60 percent.

Thanks for reading.

HUMA KAMGAR ESQ.,

Domestic Violence and Political Asylum.

Recent Landmark Victories in the Struggle for U.S. Immigration Laws to Recognize and Fully Protect Human Rights Of Women:

To be eligible for political asylum in the United States an individual must establish that he or she is a refugee under the Immigration and Nationality Act. He or she must be outside his or her country of nationality, and be unable or unwilling to return to that country because of past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of one of five protected grounds: race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. The applicant must prove that the feared persecution is either by the government or by groups or individuals the government is unable or unwilling to control.

Under Matter of L-R- (2010) and Matter of R-A- (2009), victims of domestic violence can establish eligibility for asylum as members of a “particular social group”

If you have been a victim of domestic violence in your home country and wish to apply for GENDER BASED asylum green card in the United States you might be eligible.

For more details and consultation on your situation please contact me for an appointment and a confidential consultation.

HUMA KAMGAR, ESQ.,
305 BROADWAY
14TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10007

CALL: 212-323-6887

VISIT: http://www.asylumanddeportation.com/

ARE YOU A WOMAN IN NEED OF A GREEN CARD BASED ON ASYLUM IN THE UNITED STATES?? THEN YOU MUST READ THIS!!!

WHAT IS GENDER-BASED ASYLUM LEADING TO A GREEN CARD?

WHAT IS GENDER BASED ASYLUM?

Since the mid-1990s, there has been increasing attention paid to the fact that many women around the globe experience gender-specific types of persecution, and that they could qualify for refugee protection under U.S. law. Gender-based persecution (MISTREATMENT) includes practices such as:

Human Trafficking for Prostitution or
Sexual Slavery
Domestic Violence
Female Genital Cutting (FGC)
Forced Marriage
“Honor” Killings
Forced Abortion or Reproductive
Sterilization
Rape and other Sexual Violence

As more gender-based asylum claims are raised in the U.S., immigration judges and the courts have been forced to confront a range of issues related to persecution that is unique to women and girls, as well as other groups such as gays and lesbians,
children, and the disabled. Women fleeing gender persecution often arrive in the U.S. only to be told that they do not qualify for asylum, and that they will be forcibly returned to the very countries from which they have fled for their lives.

BASED ON A RESEARCH CONDUCTED AND COMPLILED BY CENTER FOR GENDER AND REFUGEE STUDIES (CGRS):

At least one out of every three women around the world
has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in
her lifetime—usually by someone known to her.
Each year, an estimated 700,000 to two million women
and girls are trafficked internationally—many for sexual
exploitation.
Women account for nearly half the 40 million people
living with HIV/AIDS worldwide; in sub-Saharan
Africa 57% of adults with HIV/AIDS are women.
It is estimated that about 130 million women worldwide
have undergone female genital cutting (FGC), with an
additional two million girls and women undergoing the
procedure every year.
Out of 550 million working poor in the world, an estimated
330 million are women. Two-thirds of the world’s 875
million illiterate adults are women, and half of the children
in the world who are not in school are girls.

THE LAW:

Under international and United States law, a refugee is defined as a person with a "well-founded fear of persecution" for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. Based on this language, the refugee definition is commonly understood to include three essential elements:

(1) there must be a form of harm rising to the level of persecution, inflicted by a government or by individuals or a group that the government cannot or will not control;
(2) the person’s fear of such harm must be well-founded — the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a fear can be well-founded if there is a one-in-ten likelihood of its occurring;

(3) the harm, or persecution, must be inflicted upon the person for reasons related to the person’s race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group (the nexus).

The international definition of "refugee" has been interpreted primarily in the context of male asylum-seekers, to the prejudice of women refugees. A classic image of a refugee is that of the male political dissident, e.g., Andrei Sakharov of the former Soviet Union, who was persecuted for denouncing totalitarianism. In such a case an adjudicator has little difficulty recognizing that the harm suffered amounts to persecution and that it was related to one of the five grounds.
The claims of women asylum-seekers often differ from those of men in several respects. First, women often suffer harms which are either unique to their gender, such as female genital mutilation or forcible abortion, or which are more commonly inflicted upon women than men, such as rape or domestic violence. Second, women’s claims differ from those of men in that they may suffer harms solely or exclusively because they are women, i.e., as a result of their gender (such as the policies of the Taliban in Afghanistan). And third, women often suffer harm at the hands of private individuals (such as family members who threaten them with "honor killings" or abusive spouses who batter them), rather than governmental actors.
The distinctions between the more traditional claims of male asylum seekers, and those of women, have often adversely impacted women asylum-seekers. Decision-makers often fail to recognize that harms unique to women — such as forced marriage or honor killings — may constitute persecution. They are also resistant to the developing jurisprudence which recognizes that harms inflicted primarily because of gender may come within the protection of international or domestic refugee law, and that persecution at the hands of private actors can form the basis of refugee protection where there is a failure of state protection.
These developing international human rights and refugee norms provide a basis for extending protection to women asylum-seekers regardless of the distinctions between their claims and the more traditional claims of male applicants. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has provided guidance in cases of women asylum-seekers and immigration authorities in Canada, the United States and Australia have all issued guidelines for adjudicators .
Notwithstanding these developments, the claims of women asylum-seekers continue to meet denials due to erroneous interpretations of the refugee definition by decision-makers, as well as a fundamental lack of understanding of the applicable human rights norms and the relevant country conditions.

The United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) and other U.N. bodies have recognized and attempted to address the intersection of gender-based violence and forced displacement since the 1980s.The UNHCR Executive Committee (EXCOM) first issued formal recommendations regarding expansion of the refugee definition to include individuals who have experienced sexual violence or other gender-related forms of persecution in 1991: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Women, U.N. Doc. ES/SCP/67 (1991). The agency issued more comprehensive guidelines in 2002: UNHCR, Guidelines on International Protection: Gender-related persecution within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, UN Doc. HCR/GIP/02/01, 7 May 2002. The UNHCR Executive Committee has also exhorted states to develop and implement domestic criteria and guidelines regarding protection for women who claim refugee status based on a well-founded fear of gender-related persecution. Several receiving states have since either enacted such guidelines or have amended refugee and asylum legislation to instruct adjudicators to recognize gender-based persecution as a potential ground for refugee protection.

IF YOU ARE A WOMAN AND YOU THINK YOU SUFFERED MISTREATMENT OR SUBJECTED TO INHUMAN TREATMENT OR OPPRESSED IN YOUR HOME COUNTRY AGAINST YOUR WISHES SIMPLY BECAUSE OF BEING A FEMALE YOU MIGHT WANT TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY OF APPLYING FOR ASYLUM IN THE UNITED STATES. IF GRANTED ASYLUM IN THE UNITED STATES THEN YOU WILL BE ABLE LIVE AND WORK OR STUDY LEGALLY IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALSO APPLY FOR A GREEN CARD AFTER ONE YEAR.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND CONFIDENTIAL CONSULTATION CONTACT IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY :

HUMA KAMGAR, ESQ.,

305 BROADWAY 14TH FLOOR

NEW YORK, NY 10007

CALL TODAY FOR AN APPOINTMENT AND CONSULTATION

212-323-6887

VISIT: http://www.asylumanddeportation.com/