High Court of Australia, Appellant S395/2002 v. Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs; Appellant S396/2002 v. Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, [2003] HCA 71, 9 December 2003
Entry type: Case Law
Nina Held, SOGICA Table of German SOGI asylum case law 1988-2018, September 2018
Decision of the Fourth Section of the ECtHR in A.E. v. Finland, Application no. 30953/11, 22 September 2015
Jafarizad Barenji Rana v Hungary, Application no. 40888/17, lodged on 29 May 2017 (Fourth section)
Decision of the Third Section of the ECtHR in A.T. v. Sweden, Application no. 78701/14, 25 of April 2017
The case concerns a transgender Malaysian national who claimed that her deportation from Denmark to Malaysia would violate her rights under Article 7 ICCPR (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment), in conjunction with articles 17(1) (privacy and family life), 18(1) (freedom of thought, conscience and religion) and 26 (non-discrimination). The Committee considered her claims admissible … Read more
Refugee status granted to a person fleeing homophobia from Senegal, because of the criminal sanction in force in that country as well as the social exclusion suffered by sexual minorities.
Riconoscimento dello status di rifugiato a un richiedente asilo omosessuale che aveva lasciato il Senegal per il timore di subire persecuzioni legate al suo orientamento sessuale. Il Tribunale ha riconosciuto lo status sulla base delle sanzioni penali in vigore in Senegal e dell’emarginazione sociale cui sono esposte le minoranze sessuali.
The case is related to an asylum seeker from Pakistan who was denied refugee status by the Territorial Commission (the eligibility authority) due to lack of credibility. The Tribunal accepted the credibility of the applicant’s claim, also considering the testimony of a Pakistan men that, living in the same village, knew the isolation suffered by … Read more