Subject: LGBT+

European Parliament resolution of 4 February 2014 on the EU Roadmap against homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, P7_TA(2014)0062 (2013/2183(INI))

Calogero Giametta, The Sexual Politics of Asylum: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the UK Asylum System, Routledge, 2017   ‘The Sexual Politics of Asylum’ by Calogero Giametta (Routledge, 2017) emerges from a 2 year long ethnography, which explores the experiences of 60 gender and sexual minority refugees in the UK. Bringing previously unheard stories … Read more

Decision of the Third Section of the ECtHR in A.T. v. Sweden, Application no. 78701/14, 25 of April 2017

European Parliament resolution on the implementation of the Council’s LGBTI Guidelines, particularly in relation to the persecution of (perceived) homosexual men in Chechnya, Russia (2017/2688(RSP))

European Commission of Human Rights, Application No. 32999/96, Shahram Sobhani v Sweden, 10 July 1998

Paul Johnson, ‘M.E. v Sweden – European Court of Human Rights endorses expulsion of a gay man to a country that criminalises homosexuality’, ECHR Sexual Orientation Blog, 28 June 2014

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

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

Nuno Ferreira, ‘Portuguese Refugee Law in the European Context: The Case of Sexuality-Based Claims’, 2015 International Journal of Refugee Law 27 (3): 411-432. doi: 10.1093/ijrl/eev032