Currently, asylum law keeps the main characters on which it was configured. Asylum claims based on gender reasons were excluded from this protection, due to this male configuration, and the difficulties to fit in it. We can prove its evolution through slight modifications, through which decision bodies are allowed to interpret their characters in a more gender sensitive manner, and grant asylum to these women. Female genital mutilation has been one of this cases, in which courts have affirmed the need for a specific regulation. Nevertheless, some obstacles still remain. The last legal documents have included some of the positive consequences of that evolution, without changing the fundamentals. So, we can say that evolution has been insufficient.... [Leer más...]