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
Subject: Intersex
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 General Assembly, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 28 July 1951, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, p. 137
Forced Migration Review (FMR) 42, April 2013 (special issue on sexual orientation and gender identity and the protection of forced migrants) Abstract Around the world, people face abuse, arbitrary arrest, extortion, violence, severe discrimination and lack of official protection because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. This latest issue of FMR includes 26 articles … Read more
Eva Küblbeck, Legal Study on Homophobia and Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Germany Update, January 2014, FRA European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Michael Kalkmann, ‘Das Projekt “Fleeing Homophobia”’, Asylmagazin, November 2011
Sabine Jansen und Thomas Spijkerboer, ‘Fleeing Homophobia: Asylanträge mit Bezug zur sexuellen Orientierung und Geschlechtsidentität in Europe’ [deutsche Übersetzung], September 2011, COC Niederlande/ Freie Universität Amsterdam
Michael Kalkmann, ‘Questionnaire European Research Project, Fleeing Homophobia, Seeking Safety in Europe, Best practices on the (legal) position of LGBT Asylum Seekers in the EU Members States’, 2010