| Resolution Number: | 1997-C017 |
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| Title: | Support Asylum Rights of Women Fleeing Mutilation |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred as Amended |
| Final Text: | |
Resolved, That this 72nd General Convention support the rights of women fleeing the practice of female genital mutilation (female circumcision) to be granted refugee status and, when seeking such protection in the United States, be granted asylum.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, 1997 (New York: General Convention, 1998), p. 172. |
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Legislative History
| Author: | Diocese of Newark |
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| Originating House: | House of Deputies |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on National and International Problems |
House of Deputies
Original Text of Resolution:
(C017)
Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That this 72nd General Convention support the rights of women fleeing the practice of female genital mutilation, "female circumcision," to be granted refugee status in the United States.
Proposed Committee Amendment:
Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That this 72nd General Convention support the rights of women fleeing the practice of female genital mutilation (female circumcision) to be granted refugee status and, when seeking such protection in the United States, be granted asylum.
Motion carried
Resolution adopted with amendment
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #119)
House of Bishops
The Committee on National and International Problems presented its Report #9 on HD Message #119 on Resolution C017a (Refugee Status and Female Genital Mutilation), moved the resolution, and recommended concurrence.
Motion carried
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #158)
Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 22.
| Abstract: | The 72nd General Convention supports the rights of women fleeing genital mutilation to be granted refugee status and asylum in the United States. |
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