U.S. asylum laws should account for women seeking refuge from sexual violence
Even refugee camps aren’t safe for women and girls. They need asylum.
By Hollie McKay
1:31 AM on Jul 25, 2021 CDT
This op-ed is part of an occasional series published by The Dallas Morning News Opinion section on human rights and human freedom.
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In the remote mountains dotting the lush edges of El Salvador, a haunting sense of traumatic memory and unrelenting fear lingers, stagnant in the tropical air.
The first thing Virginia Luna Arguta, an 85-year-old farmer and survivor of the 1980s El Salvadoran war, wants to tell me is that decades later, her 15-year-old granddaughter is paying the price of violence and instability.