UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ‘The Protection of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Asylum-Seekers and Refugees’, 22 September 2010
Subject: Refugee/Asylum
Marchu Girma, Isabelle Kershaw, Gemma Lousley, Sophie Radice & Natasha Walter, ‘I Am Human. Refugee women’s experiences of detention in the UK’, 2015, Women for Refugee Women.
EASO – European Asylum Support Office, ‘Annual Report on the Situation of Asylum in the EU 2017’, 2018
UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration Group (UKLGIG), ‘Applying HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) to asylum claims based on sexual orientation’, 2018.
European Commission, ‘EMN Ad-Hoc Query on NL AHQ on national asylum policies regarding LGBT-asylum seekers – Requested by NL EMN NCP on 2nd May 2016′, 2016
Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population / Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold, ‘Report on Situation of gays and lesbians and their partners in respect to asylum and immigration in the member states of the Council of Europe’, Doc. 8654, 25 February 2000
BBC News, ‘Meet Iran’s gay mullah forced to flee the country’, 8 June 2016 Abstract In Iran, homosexuality is banned and punishable by execution under its strict code of sharia, or Islamic law. In a country dominated by the religious class, being gay is taboo, and especially among the establishment. One Iranian gay cleric, who … Read more
International Commission of Jurists, ‘Refugee Status Claims Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: ICJ Practitioners’ Guide n° 11’, 2016
Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira and Nina Held, ‘SOGICA – Case studies comparison’, updated 15 March 2018. This table maps some of the similarities and differences in SOGI asylum law and policy across our three case study countries – Germany, Italy and the UK – and at European level.
Farrah Jafari, Silencing Sexuality: LGBT Refugees and the Public-Private Divide in Iran and Turkey, PhD dissertation (supervised by Anne Betteridge and Leila Hudson), The University of Arizona, 2013 Abstract The current Islamic Republic of Iran distinguishes between homosexuals and same-sex sexual activity: the former is not recognized as an identity, while state apparatuses openly condemn … Read more