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One woman, called AH in court papers, fled Afghanistan for Iran with her mother and sisters when she was about 13-14 after her father, who was a drug addict, tried to sell her to finance his addiction, according to a court document.<\/p>\n

The other woman, identified as FN, who was born in 2007, has never lived in Afghanistan. She and her family had been living in neighbouring Iran without residence permits, meaning they had no right to work and she could not receive an education. She fled Iran and filed an asylum request in Austria.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe (FN) said that if she returned to Afghanistan, as a woman she would be at risk of abduction, would be unable to attend school and might be unable to support herself without her family there,\u201d an ECJ case document said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Source: www.theguardian.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The European court of justice (ECJ) has ruled that gender and nationality alone are sufficient grounds for a country to grant asylum to women from Afghanistan, where the ruling Taliban have sharply curtailed women\u2019s rights. Authorities in Austria refused refugee status to two Afghan women after they applied for asylum in 2015 and 2020. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"\n