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Danish government left information out of UN response over FGM asylum case
TheLocal.dk ^ | 23 August 2018 09:59 CEST+02:00 | Ritzau/The Local

Posted on 08/23/2018 8:52:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai

In a response to the UN, the government failed to include information regarding its practice in asylum cases involving female genital mutilation (FGM) in Somalia.

Although the country’s refugee agency Flygtningenævnet, which is part of the Ministry of Immigration and Integration, wished to submit the information, a section relating to FGM was removed, making the response less controversial, according to a report by newspaper Information.

The decision to remove such information was taken by the ministry in consultation with the Ministry of Justice’s section for state and human rights (Stats-og Menneskeretskontor), according to the report.

Information reports that public documents to which it has gained access show correspondence between the refugee agency and justice ministry confirming the decision.

Denmark was in January criticized by the UN’s Committee on the Rights of the Child (OHCHR) for refusing asylum to a Somali woman and her infant daughter who risked FGM if they were returned to the northeast African country. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: denmark; djibouti; eritrea; eurabia; europeanunion; eussr; femalemutilation; fgm; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; lebanon; nato; rop; somalia; sudan; un; yemen

1 posted on 08/23/2018 8:52:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Import Third World.

Become Third World.


2 posted on 08/23/2018 9:19:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, since they’re shooting for second world, what better way to get there?


3 posted on 08/23/2018 9:21:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like the opposite: They are refusing asylum to the third worlders, even though those may be harmed at home.


4 posted on 08/24/2018 4:23:15 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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