Subject: Gender Identity

Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, ‘Chairperson’s Guideline 9: Proceedings Before the IRB Involving Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression’, 2017

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

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

Rachel A Lewis, ‘“Gay? Prove it”: The politics of queer anti-deportation activism’, Sexualities, 2014, Vol.17(8), pp. 958-975 Abstract: This article examines how gender, sexuality, race and class intersect in queer asylum claims to influence the perceived credibility of gay and lesbian asylum applicants. Building on recent scholarship in queer migration studies that considers the role … Read more

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