UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ‘Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of 2018Du34558 regarding claims for refugee status based on sexual orientation and gender identity’, 26 February 2018 Abstract These observations are submitted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (“UNHCR”) … Read more

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ‘Resettlement Assessment Tool: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Refugees’, 2013 Abstract The Resettlement Assessment Tool: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Refugees has been developed to enhance UNHCR’s effectiveness and harmonize procedures for assessing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) refugees for resettlement. Due to the discrimination … Read more

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ‘Age, Gender and Diversity – UNHCR Accountability Report’, 2014 Abstract Since 2007, UNHCR has systematically applied an Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) accountability approach across all of its operations. This approach led to the development of UNHCR’s AGD Policy in 2011. The AGD policy, which is a key UNHCR … Read more

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ‘Summary Report, Informal Meeting of Experts on Refugee Claims relating to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity’, International Association of Refugee Law Judges, 2011 Abstract On 10 September 2011, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ) and the European … Read more

UNHCR, ‘Guidelines on International Protection: Membership of a Particular Social Group within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees’, 2002 Abstract UNHCR issues these Guidelines pursuant to its mandate, as contained in the Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner … Read more

UNHCR, International Protection Considerations with Regard to People Fleeing the Republic of Iraq, May 2019

Julie Bissland and Kathleen Lawand, ‘Report of the UNHCR Symposium on Gender-Based Persecution’, International Journal of Refugee Law, Special Issue, 1997, 13-31

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ‘Resettlement Assessment Tool: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Refugees’, May 2019 Abstract The Resettlement Assessment Tool: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Refugees has been developed to enhance UNHCR’s effectiveness and harmonize procedures for assessing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) refugees for resettlement. Due to the … Read more

UNHCR, Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status and Guidelines on International Protection Under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, Reissued, Geneva, February 2019

Alice Edwards, ‘X, Y and Z: The “A, B, C” of Claims based on Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity?’, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), International Commission of Jurists: Expert Roundtable on asylum claims based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression, Brussels, 27 June 2014