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
Subject: Refugee/Asylum
Human Rights Watch, ‘Spain: LGBT Asylum Seekers Abused in North African Enclave. Transfer Sexual Minorities from Ceuta to Mainland’, 2017.
Deniz Akin, ‘Queer asylum seekers: translating sexuality in Norway’, in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2017, 3, 458-474 Abstract This paper focuses on the burden of proof that queer asylum seekers encounter in Norway and how they tackle it. It is argued that queer asylum seekers translate their sexuality, sometimes strategically, to become readable … Read more
Lisa Riedel und Gerald Schneider, ‘Dezentraler Asylvollzug diskriminiert: Anerkennungsquoten von Flüchtlingen im bundesdeutschen Vergleich, 2010-2015’, PVS, 58. Jg., 1/2017, S. 21-48, DOI: 10.5771/0032-3470-2017-1-21.
The case is related to an asylum seeker coming from Bangladesh, belonging to the Rohingya ethnicity, who was granted refugee status by the Tribunal of Catanzaro (after his application was rejected by the Commissione territoriale – the eligibility authority). The Tribunal found that the applicant made all attempts to prove his personal background, while all information … Read more
Il caso è relativo al riconoscimento dello status di rifugiato a un cittadino di etnia Rohingya del Bangladesh dove, oltre che essere a rischio di persecuzioni per il suo orientamento sessuale, soffre discriminazioni anche per la sua appartenenza etnica.
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
Il caso e’ relativo a un richiedente asilo del Gambia al quale era stato negato lo status di rifugiato per motivi legati alla credibilita’ del suo racconto personale. La Commissione territoriale aveva dato, peraltro, peso anche al fatto che in Gambia le sanzioni penali contro persone omossessuali non sarebbero effettivamente applicate. La Corte di appello … Read more
The case is related to an asylum seeker from Ghana who was denied the refugee status because in his country no persecution could be found in relation to sexual minorities. The Court of Appeal quashed the decision of the Tribunal of first instance, stating that it is known that in Ghana a fear of persecution for … Read more
Il caso riguarda un richiedente asilo del Ghana che aveva visto negata la sua domanda di protezione internazionale sulla base dell’inesistenza, nel suo Paese, di forme di persecuzione legate al suo orientamento sessuale. Riconoscendo, invece, la diffusione di forme di discriminazione, nonche’ di una legislazione penale tuttora in vigore che criminalizza gli atti omosessuali, la Corte di Appello … Read more