nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/fb74a4298ba57dc0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240220s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/fb74a4298ba57dc0 doi eng 342 23 Steininger, Silvia Author aut The CJEU’s Feminist Turn? - Gender-based Persecution as a Ground for Protection Steininger, Silvia Verfassungsblog 2024-02-20 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In Case C-621/21, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held that women in general and women facing domestic violence in their country of origin in particular, qualify as a protected ‘social group’ under EU Directive 2011/95 and thus avail themselves for refugee status or subsidiary protection in the Common European Asylum System. This contribution applies the perspective of feminist approaches to international law to critically analyze what this decision means for women and victims of gender-based violence – in- and outside of the European Union. CC BY-SA 4.0 CJEU domestic violence ECJ gender and sex discrimination gender based violence persecution Refugee Protection Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-cjeus-feminist-turn/ raw object