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2.17.3. FGM/C

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Guidance note
    • Actors of persecution and serious harm
    • Refugee status
      • Guidance on particular profiles with regard to qualification for refugee status
    • Subsidiary protection
      • Article 15(a) QD
      • Article 15(b) QD
      • Article 15(c) QD
    • Actors of protection
    • Internal protection alternative
      • Part of the country
      • Safety
      • Travel and admittance
      • Reasonableness to settle
    • Exclusion
      • a. Crime against peace, war crime or crime against humanity
      • b. Serious (non-political) crime
      • c. Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN
      • d. Danger to the community or the security of the Member State
  • Common analysis
  • General remarks
  • 1. Actors of persecution or serious harm
    • Preliminary remarks
    • Overview: areas of control/activity
    • 1.1. The Iraqi State
    • 1.2. Popular Mobilisation Units and Tribal Mobilisation Militias
    • 1.3. Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) authorities
    • 1.4. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
    • 1.5. Tribes
    • 1.6. Other non-State actors
  • 2. Refugee status
    • Preliminary remarks
    • Analysis of particular profiles
      • 2.1. Persons perceived to be associated with ISIL
      • 2.2. Sunni Arabs
      • 2.3. Political opposition activists and protesters
      • 2.4. Journalists, media workers and human rights activists
      • 2.5. Deserters from armed forces
      • 2.6. Individuals approached for recruitment by armed groups
      • 2.7. Former Baath party members
      • 2.8. Members of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU), Peshmerga and local police
      • 2.9. Individuals perceived to oppose ISIL
      • 2.10. (Perceived) collaborators of Western armed forces, organisations, or companies
      • 2.11. Humanitarian workers
      • 2.12. LGBTIQ persons
      • 2.13. Individuals perceived to transgress moral codes
      • 2.14. Individuals considered to have committed blasphemy and/or apostasy
      • 2.15. Religious and ethnic minorities, and stateless persons
        • 2.15.1. Turkmen
        • 2.15.2. Yazidi
        • 2.15.3. Christians
        • 2.15.4. Shabak
        • 2.15.5. Kaka'i
        • 2.15.6. Sabean-Mandaeans
        • 2.15.7. Baha'i
        • 2.15.8. Bidoon
        • 2.15.9. Fayli Kurds
        • 2.15.10. Palestinian
      • 2.16. Women
        • 2.16.1. Violence against women and girls: overview
        • 2.16.2. Forced and child marriage
        • 2.16.3. Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C)
        • 2.16.4. Women working in the public sphere
        • 2.16.5. Women perceived to have transgressed moral codes
        • 2.16.6. Women perceived to be associated with ISIL
        • 2.16.7. Single women and female heads of households
      • 2.17. Children
        • 2.17.1. Violence against children: overview
        • 2.17.2. Child marriage
        • 2.17.3. FGM/C
        • 2.17.4. Child labour and child trafficking
        • 2.17.5. Child recruitment
        • 2.17.6. Education of children and girls in particular
        • 2.17.7. Children born under ISIL who lack civil documentation
        • 2.17.8. Children without a care-taker
      • 2.18. Persons living with disabilities and persons with severe medical issues
      • 2.19. Persons involved in and affected by blood feuds in the context of tribal conflict
      • 2.20. Individuals accused of ordinary crimes
  • 3. Subsidiary protection
    • 3.1. Article 15(a) QD
    • 3.2. Article 15(b) QD
    • 3.3. Article 15(c) QD
      • Preliminary remarks
      • a. Armed conflict (international or internal)
      • b. Qualification of a person as a ‘civilian’
      • c. Indiscriminate violence
        • Indicators of indiscriminate violence
        • Indiscriminate violence in Iraq
        • Assessment by governorate
          • A-D
            • Anbar
            • Babil/Babylon
            • Baghdad
            • Basrah
            • Dahuk/Dohuk
            • Dhi Qar/Thi-Qar
            • Diyala
          • E-M
            • Erbil
            • Kerbala
            • Kirkuk (Tameem)
            • Missan
            • Muthanna
          • N-W
            • Najaf
            • Ninewa
            • Qadissiya
            • Salah al-Din
            • Sulaymaniyah incl. Halabja
            • Wassit
      • d. Serious and individual threat
      • e. Qualification of the harm as ‘threat to (a civilian’s) life or person
      • f. Nexus/’by reason of’
  • 4. Actors of protection
    • The State
      • The Iraqi State
      • Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
    • Parties or organisations
  • 5. Internal protection alternative
    • Preliminary remarks
    • Part of the country
    • Safety
    • Travel and admittance
    • Reasonableness to settle
      • General situation
      • Individual circumstances
      • Conclusions on reasonableness
  • 6. Exclusion
    • Preliminary remarks
    • Exclusion grounds
      • a. Crime against peace, war crime, or crime against humanity
      • b. Serious (non-political) crime
      • c. Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN
      • d. Danger to the community or the security of the Member State
    • Relevant circumstances
      • Crimes committed in the context of the conflict with ISIL (2014–ongoing)
      • Crimes committed after the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein (2003–ongoing)
      • Crimes committed during the regime of Saddam Hussein
      • Criminal activity and other types of violence
    • Guidance with regard to Iraq
      • Article 12(2)(a) QD and Article 17(1)(a) QD
      • Article 12(2)(b) QD and Article 17(1)(b) QD
      • Article 12(2)(c) QD and Article 17(1)(c) QD
  • Abbreviations and glossary
  • Country of origin information references
  • Relevant case law

 

Please cite as: EASO, '2.17.3. FGM/C' in Country Guidance Iraq, January 2021.

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See the section on 2.16.3 Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) under the profile 2.16 Women.

See other topics concerning children:       
 
2.17.1. Violence against children: overview
2.17.2. Child marriage
2.17.3. FGM/C
2.17.4. Child labour and child trafficking
2.17.5. Child recruitment
2.17.6. Education of children and girls in particular
2.17.7. Children born under ISIL who lack civil documentation
2.17.8. Children without a care-taker

 

 

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