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Toward A Compassionate Solution: The Unhcr Guidance Note And Asylum For Parents Of Female Genital Mutilation Vulnerable Children, Jennifer Mesko

Jennifer Mesko

On August 26, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit handed down its decision in Kane v. Holder denying a father’s petition for withholding of removal despite the threat of FGM to his minor daughter. As one ground of relief, the father, Kane, advanced a principal claim because he would be subject to persecution: “(1) as a member of a social group of ‘parents of minor daughters of the Fulani Tribe who have not had FGM, and who oppose the practice,’ (2) as a result of his political and religious opposition to FGM, and (3) by …