ORAM, ‘Testing Sexual Orientation: A Scientific and Legal Analysis of Plethysmography in Asylum and Refugee Status Proceedings’, December 2010
Entry type: Reports
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.
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
Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi (author) and Joël Le Déroff (editor), ‘Laying the grounds for LGBTI sensitive asylum decision-making in Europe: transposition of the Recast Asylum Procedure Directives and of the Recast Reception Conditions Directive’, ILGA Europe, May 2014
Sabine Jansen (author) and Joël Le Déroff (editor), ‘Good practices related to LGBTI asylum applicants in Europe’, ILGA-Europe, May 2014
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