Marios Kontos, ‘Asylum, sexuality and concealment: where are we a decade on from HJ (Iran)?’, Free Movement blog, 7 July 2020 Abstract On 7 July 2010, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in HJ (Iran) [2010] UKSC 31, in which it established how asylum applications are to be decided when applicants flee persecution on … Read more
Subject: Refugee/Asylum
Decision of the Fourth Section of the ECtHR in Rana v. Hungary, Application no. 40888/17, 16 July 2020
Henriette Gunkel and Ben Pitcher (eds.), ‘Racism in the Closet – Interrogating Postcolonial Sexuality’, Darkmatter, issue no. 3, 2008 Table of contents Editorial: Racism in the Closet – Interrogating Postcolonial Sexuality by Henriette Gunkel and Ben Pitcher • 2 May 2008 Articles Loyal Repetitions of the Nation: Gay Assimilation and the ‘War on Terror’ … Read more
Council of Europe, ‘Gender-based asylum claims and non-refoulement: Articles 60 and 61 of the Istanbul Convention. A collection of papers on the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence’, February 2020 On 10 February 2020, the Council of Europe published a new study on Gender-based asylum claims and non-refoulement: Articles … Read more
Human Rights Watch, ‘”They Want Us Exterminated”: Murder, Torture, Sexual Orientation and Gender in Iraq’, 17 August 2009
Refugee Status Appeals Authority, Refugee Appeal No. 74665, 7 July 2004 (New Zealand)
Andrew DJ Shield, Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 Abstract This book focuses on the latter half of the twentieth century, when much of northwest Europe grew increasingly multicultural with the arrival of foreign workers and (post-)colonial migrants, whilst simultaneously experiencing a boom in feminist and sexual … Read more
Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, ‘Annual inspection of “Adults at Risk in Immigration Detention” (2018–19). November 2018 – May 2019’, April 2020. This inspection examined how the Home Office’s ‘Adults at Risk’ process was working. The inspection was commissioned by the Home Secretary in response to a recommendation made by Stephen Shaw CBE … Read more
ILGA-Europe, ‘Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex People in Europe and Central Asia’, 2020 Abstract Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex People covering the period of January to December 2019. We examined the advances made and provided concrete examples … Read more
6Rang, ‘Letter to Dutch government regarding its asylum policy for Iranian LGBTQI’, 11 February 2020 Abstract In this open letter to Dutch Government ministers, the NGO 6Rang raise concerns about the protection level offered to the Iranian LGBT asylum seekers in the Netherlands and the current situation of LGBT rights and protections in Iran.