Subject: Intersex

COC Out and Proud Conference 2017, ‘LGBTI Asylum in Europe’, Amsterdam, 5 and 6 October 2017

Lorenzo Bernini, ‘The ordeal for humanity: LGBTI asylum seekers in Europe facing the limits of human rights’, 2015 AG About Gender – International Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 4, No. 7, pp. 177-189   What’s “human” in the human? What makes a living being a human being? In case of doubt, who decides whether a … Read more

James C. Hathaway and Jason Pobjoy, ‘Queer Cases Make Bad Law’, 44 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 315, 388 (2012)

John Tobin, ‘Assessing GLBTI Refugee Claims: Using Human Rights Law to Shift the Narrative of Persecution Within Refugee Law’, 44 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 447, 454-55 (2012)

Guglielmo Verdirame, ‘A Friendly Act of Socio-Cultural Contestation: Asylum and the Big Cultural Divide’, 44 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 557, 570 (2012)

Schmidt, Frank, LSBTI mit Fluchtgeschichte in Berlin: Zur besonderen Bedürfnislage geflüchteter Menschen mit schwuler, lesbischer, bi-, trans- oder intersexueller Orientierung und Identität (LSBTI) und daraus ableitbaren Interventions- und Konzeptionsmöglichkeiten Sozialer Arbeit, Bachelorarbeit zur Erlangung des Akademischen Grades „Bachelor of Arts“ (B.A.) im Studiengang „Soziale Arbeit“ an der „Alice Salomon“ – Hochschule für Sozialarbeit und Sozialpädagogik … Read more

Dustin M. and Ferreira N., ‘Canada’s Guideline 9: improving SOGIE claims assessment?’, 2017 Forced Migration Review 56 (October), at http://www.fmreview.org/latinamerica-caribbean.html and SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3020950 Abstract Asylum seekers making claims relating to their sexual orientation and gender identity often face unfair refusal. New guidance from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada takes admirable steps towards improving claims assessment, and offers a model … Read more

Sabine Jansen and Thomas Spijkerboer, ‘Fleeing Homophobia: Asylum Claims Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Europe’, September 2011, COC Nederland / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Written Comments of FIDH, APDHE, ILGA-EUROPE, ECSOL, and UKLGIG on Application No. 15109/15, M.B. v. Spain, European Court of Human Rights, Third Section, Submitted on 15 January 2016

Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 31 March 2010 at the 1081st meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies