Training and strategic litigation: Tools for enhanced protection of gender-related asylum applicants in Europe

Gender in Refugee Law: From the Margins to the Centre

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 175-196

  Hennessy, Maria ^a  

^a European Council on Refugees and Exiles   (Belgium)

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