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cjgl-2429	Binder, Andrea	Gender and the “Membership in a Particular Social Group” Category of the 1951 Refugee Convention	2001	28	.pdf	application/pdf	13138	578	54	The Swedish representative explained only that experience had shown that certain refugees had been persecuted because they belonged to particular social groups. 49 See, e.g., Cheung v. Canada (M.E.I.), [1993] 102 D.L.R. (4th) 214 (the Federal Court of Canada concluding that Cheung belongs to a particular social group of Chinese women who had more than one child and faced forced sterilization); VG Frankfurt a.M. [German Administrative Court Frankfurt am Main], Oct. 23, 1996, 5 E 33532/94, excerpts reprinted in 3 Streit 130 (1997) (concluding that the claimant belonged to the social group of single women living in Afghanistan without male protection who have to appear in public in order to earn their living and are thus threatened with the accusation of violating the strict Islamic social mores); Refugee Status Appeals Authority, New Zealand, Refugee Appeal No. 203,9/93 Re MN, Apr. 5, 1995, cited in 9 I.J. Refugee L. 111, 156 (Special Issue on Gender- Based Persecution Autumn 1997) (accepting as social group women who, as a result of their deeply held values, beliefs, and convictions, reject or oppose the way in which they are treated in Iran, and the attendant power structure which perpetuates and reinforces the so called 'Islamist' justification for this state of affairs); see also the discussion of Kasinga, supra note 29.	cache/cjgl-2429.pdf	txt/cjgl-2429.txt