Thursday 9th November 2023
Opinion in Joined Cases C-608/22 Bundesamt für Fremdenwesen und Asyl and others (Afghan Women) and Case C-609/22 Bundesamt für Fremdenwesen und Asyl and others (Afghan Women)
(Asylum policy)
Since the return of the Taliban regime to Afghanistan, the situation of women has deteriorated rapidly. This regime restricts or even prohibits their access to healthcare and education, their exercise of a professional activity, their participation in public and political life as well as their freedom of movement and sporting activities. They must cover their bodies and faces, and are deprived of protection against gender-based violence and domestic violence.
Two Afghan women applied for asylum in Austria, but the Austrian authorities rejected their applications. The authorities considered that the first woman’s reason for fleeing was not credible and that the second woman did not face a real risk of persecution in Afghanistan.
An Austrian court asked the Court of Justice whether the treatment of women by the Taliban constituted persecution justifying the granting of refugee status. If so, it also asked whether the real danger of this persecution could be established for all Afghan women regardless of their personal situation.
Background Documents C-608/22 Background Documents C-609/22
Donnerstag, 9. November 2023
Schlussanträge des Generalanwalts am Gerichtshof in den verbundenen Rechtssachen C-608/22 und C-609/22 Bundesamt für Fremdenwesen und Asyl u. a. (Afghanische Frauen)
Asylanträge von Afghanischen Frauen
Zwei Afghanische Frauen, AH und FN, stellten in Österreich jeweils 2015 und 2020 einen Antrag auf internationalen Schutz nach nationalem Asylrecht. Das Bundesamt für Fremdenwesen und Asyl wies die Anträge der beiden Frauen 2018 und 2020 ab. Jedoch wurde ihnen der Status der subsidiär Schutzberechtigten zuerkannt. Infolgedessen wurde ihnen eine befristete Aufenthaltsberechtigung erteilt.
Auch das Bundesverwaltungsgericht wies die dagegen erhobene Beschwerde ab. AH und FN erhoben daraufhin vor dem Verwaltungsgerichtshof Revision. Ihrer Meinung nach müsse angesichts der aktuellen Situation in Afghanistan allein der Umstand, dass sie beide afghanische Frauen seien, dazu tauglich sein, ihnen das Asylrecht zu gewähren.
Der Verwaltungsgerichtshof hat den EuGH hierzu um Vorabentscheidung ersucht (siehe auch Mitteilung des VwGH).
Generalanwalt Richard de la Tour legt heute seine Schlussanträge vor.
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