Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira and Nina Held, ‘SOGICA – Case studies comparison’, updated 15 March 2018. This table maps some of the similarities and differences in SOGI asylum law and policy across our three case study countries – Germany, Italy and the UK – and at European level.
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Nicole LaViolette, ‘Canadian Appellate Level Decisions Dealing with Refugee Claims Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity – Listed According to the Definition of a Convention Refugee’, 2015 This compilation of Canadian appellate level decisions covers the period from 1993 to 2015 and contains two appeals from the RAD of the IRB; a significant number … Read more
O.S. v. Switzerland Application no. 43987/16 – Written Submissions on behalf of the Aire Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe), the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), ILGA-Europe (the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) See related O.S. v Switzerland … Read more
COC Out and Proud Conference 2017, ‘LGBTI Asylum in Europe’, Amsterdam, 5 and 6 October 2017
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ‘UNHCR’s Comments on the Practice of Phallometry in the Czech Republic to Determine the Credibility of Asylum Claims based on Persecution due to Sexual Orientation’, April 2011
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – Division of International Protection Services, Selected Documents Relating to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Relevant to International Refugee Protection, October 2009
Written Comments of FIDH, APDHE, ILGA-EUROPE, ECSOL, and UKLGIG on Application No. 15109/15, M.B. v. Spain, European Court of Human Rights, Third Section, Submitted on 15 January 2016
Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 31 March 2010 at the 1081st meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies
European Parliament resolution on the implementation of the Council’s LGBTI Guidelines, particularly in relation to the persecution of (perceived) homosexual men in Chechnya, Russia (2017/2688(RSP))
US Immigration Office, ‘Guidance for Adjudicating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Refugee and Asylum Claims’, 2011