The case concerns a transgender Malaysian national who claimed that her deportation from Denmark to Malaysia would violate her rights under Article 7 ICCPR (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment), in conjunction with articles 17(1) (privacy and family life), 18(1) (freedom of thought, conscience and religion) and 26 (non-discrimination). The Committee considered her claims admissible … Read more
Subject: LGBT+
Lee and Brotman, ‘Identity, Refugeeness, Belonging: Experiences of Sexual Minority Refugees in Canada’, 2011, Canadian Review of Sociology 48 (3): 241–274 Abstract Cet article explore les résultats d’un projet de recherche communautaire qualitatif sur les expériences intersectionnelles des réfugiés minorités sexuelles vivant à Montréal et Toronto. Menée entre 2007 à 2010, cette étude a examiné … Read more
UNHCR and IOM, ‘Training package on the protection of LGBTI persons in forced displacement’, 2017 Abstract LGBTI people face a complex array of challenges and threats, including discrimination, prejudice, violence, difficulty accessing humanitarian services and barriers to articulating their protection needs to assisting organizations. Efforts to improve the protection of LGBTI people have recently gained … Read more
Refugee status granted to a person fleeing homophobia from Senegal, because of the criminal sanction in force in that country as well as the social exclusion suffered by sexual minorities.
Riconoscimento dello status di rifugiato a un richiedente asilo omosessuale che aveva lasciato il Senegal per il timore di subire persecuzioni legate al suo orientamento sessuale. Il Tribunale ha riconosciuto lo status sulla base delle sanzioni penali in vigore in Senegal e dell’emarginazione sociale cui sono esposte le minoranze sessuali.
Petter Hojem, ‘Fleeing for love: asylum seekers and sexual orientation in Scandinavia’, UNHCR Research Paper No. 181, 2009.
The case is related to an asylum seeker from Pakistan who was denied refugee status by the Territorial Commission (the eligibility authority) due to lack of credibility. The Tribunal accepted the credibility of the applicant’s claim, also considering the testimony of a Pakistan men that, living in the same village, knew the isolation suffered by … Read more
Il caso riguarda un richiedente asilo del Pakistan al quale era stato negato lo status di rifugiato dalla Commissione territoriale competente, per motivi legati alla credibilita’. Considerate la testimonianza di un abitante del medesimo villaggio in Pakistan sull’isolamento vissuto dal ricorrente a causa del suo orientamento sessuale e del Paese di origine, il Tribunale ha ritenuto credibile il … Read more
The case is related to an asylum seeker from Gambia, who was denied the refugee status for lack of credibility about the circumstances leading to persecution. The eligibility authority (the Territorial Commission), according to which there were no doubts about his sexual orientation, gave weight to the fact that in Gambia criminal sanctions for committing homosexual acts … Read more