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Place: International
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
UNHCR and IOM, ‘Training package on the protection of LGBTI persons in forced displacement’, 2017 Abstract LGBTI people face a complex array of challenges and threats, including discrimination, prejudice, violence, difficulty accessing humanitarian services and barriers to articulating their protection needs to assisting organizations. Efforts to improve the protection of LGBTI people have recently gained … Read more
Human Rights Watch, “They Have Long Arms and They Can Find Me”. Anti-Gay Purge by Local Authorities in Russia’s Chechen Republic, 2017.
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J. Millbank, ‘The Right of Lesbians and Gay Men to Live Freely, Openly and on Equal Terms is Not Bad Law: A Reply to Hathaway and Pobjoy’, 44 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 497, 515 (2012)
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
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