Entry type: Reports

ELENA, ‘Sexual Orientation as a Ground for Recognition of Refugee Status’, Research Paper, 1998.

ORAM, ‘Testing Sexual Orientation: A Scientific and Legal Analysis of Plethysmography in Asylum and Refugee Status Proceedings’, December 2010

Human Rights Council, Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity – A/HRC/35/36, 35th Session of the Human Rights Council, 2017

Petter Hojem, ‘Fleeing for love: asylum seekers and  sexual orientation in Scandinavia’, UNHCR Research Paper No. 181, 2009.

Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi, ‘Guidelines on the transposition of the Asylum Qualification Directive: protecting LGBTI asylum seekers’, ILGA Europe, 2012 Abstract In 2004, the European Union adopted a Directive setting out rules governing minimum standards on conditions under which refugee status is granted as part of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS).1 It applies to third … Read more

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR Guidance Note on Refugee Claims Relating to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, 21 November 2008 Note: These Guidelines are replaced by the 2012 Guidelines on International Protection No. 9: Claims to Refugee Status based on Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity within the context of Article 1A(2) of the … Read more

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Guidelines on International Protection No. 9: Claims to Refugee Status based on Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, 23 October 2012, HCR/GIP/12/01 Note: These Guidelines replace the UNHCR Guidance Note on … Read more

European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, Report on the situation of women refugees and asylum seekers in the EU (2015/2325(INI)), A8-0024/2016, Rapporteur: Mary Honeyball, 10.2.2016

ILGA Europe, ‘Protecting the rights of LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees in the reform of the Common European Asylum System’, 2016

ILGA Europe, ‘Seeking refuge without harassment, detention or return to a “safe country” – ILGA Europe Briefing on LGBTI Refugees and Asylum’, February 2016