Entry type: Reports

David Bolt (Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration), ‘An inspection of the Home Office’s management of asylum accommodation provision – February – June 2018’, Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 50(2) of the UK Borders Act 2007, November 2018

Human Rights First, Persistent Needs and Gaps: the Protection of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Refugees: An Overview of UNHCR’s Response to LGBTI Refugees and Recommendations to Enhance Protection, September 09, 2010 Summary In all regions of the world people continue to flee their homes on account of their sexual orientation or gender … Read more

Human Rights First, The Road to Safety: Strengthening Protection for LGBTI Refugees in Uganda and Kenya, 2012 Summary Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) refugees are often among the most vulnerable and isolated of refugees. This is especially true in places where they are at heightened risk due to violent attacks, discrimination, and laws … Read more

ORAM – Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration, Opening doors: a global survey of NGO attitudes towards LGBTI refugees and asylum seekers, San Francisco: ORAM, 2012 Abstract Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers and refugees are among the most vulnerable people in the world. Having fled persecution in their home countries without … Read more

Gemma Lousley and Sarah Cope, ‘We are still here. The continued detention of women seeking asylum in Yarl’s Wood’, 2017, Women for Refugee Women

Marchu Girma, Isabelle Kershaw, Gemma Lousley, Sophie Radice & Natasha Walter, ‘I Am Human. Refugee women’s experiences of detention in the UK’, 2015, Women for Refugee Women.

EASO – European Asylum Support Office, ‘Annual Report on the Situation of Asylum in the EU 2017’, 2018

UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration Group (UKLGIG), ‘Applying HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) to asylum claims based on sexual orientation’, 2018.

Human Rights Council (HRC), Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, 38th session, A/HRC/38/43, 11 May 2018

European Commission, ‘EMN Ad-Hoc Query on NL AHQ on national asylum policies regarding LGBT-asylum seekers – Requested by NL EMN NCP on 2nd May 2016′, 2016