Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality

Douglas McDonald, ‘Freedom To Be: Assessing the Claims of LGBTQ Asylum Seekers’, 10 Socio-Legal Review, 2014, 35-52 Abstract This paper assesses contemporary dilemmas in the assessment of asylum claims based upon sexual identity, including international legal challenges to previously-prevailing notions that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (“LGBTQ”) asylum seekers may escape persecution through ‘discretion’; … Read more

In 2019, the SOGICA project, in collaboration with partner organisations, submitted Freedom of Information requests about SOGI asylum to the relevant government departments in Germany, Italy and the UK with varying degrees of success. Germany SOGICA prepared questions for a parliamentary request that was submitted by Ulla Jelpke and others, Die Linke, on 17 May … Read more

Kleine Anfrage der Abgeordneten Ulla Jelpke, Doris Achelwilm, Dr. André Hahn, Gökay Akbulut, Simone Barrientos, Nicole Gohlke, Cornelia Möhring, Amira Mohamed Ali, Niema Movassat, Norbert Müller (Potsdam), Petra Pau, Martina Renner, Dr. Petra Sitte, Kersten Steinke, Friedrich Straetmanns, Dr. Kirsten Tackmann und der Fraktion DIE LINKE. Situation von LSBTI-Geflüchteten Deutscher Bundestag, Drucksache 19/10308, 17.05.2019   … Read more

Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage der Abgeordneten Ulla Jelpke, Doris Achelwilm, Dr. André Hahn, weiterer Abgeordneter und der Fraktion DIE LINKE. – Drucksache 19/10308 – Situation von LSBTI-Geflüchteten Deutscher Bundestag Drucksache 19/10733 06.06.2019   [SOGICA had prepared this parliamentary request, which was edited and submitted by Ulla Jelpke/ The LINKE]

Kameel Ahmady کامیل احمدی, ‘Migration and Gender for Iranian LGBT’, 4(1) The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies, and Development, Article 2, 2019 Abstract This article specifically addresses the country of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the very important issues pertaining to LGB individuals in Iran and their migration process. LGB individuals suffer from … Read more

James D. Wilets, ‘Conceptualizing private violence against sexual minorities as gendered violence: An international and comparative perspective’, Albany Law Review, 60, 990–1049, 1997 Abstract To the extent that violence against women and sexual minorities(1) is predicated upon assumptions of a polar construction of gender, (2) in which nonconformity with gender role expectations is enforced through … Read more

House of Commons Canada, ‘LGBTQ+ At Risk Abroad: Canada’s Call to Action: Report of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration’, House of Commons Canada, 2017 Preamble On 4 October 2016, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration (hereafter referred to as “the Committee” or “CIMM”) adopted a motion to undertake a … Read more

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ‘Summary Report, Informal Meeting of Experts on Refugee Claims relating to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity’, International Association of Refugee Law Judges, 2011 Abstract On 10 September 2011, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ) and the European … Read more

Joint amicus, ‘Written submissions on behalf of the AIRE Centre, ECRE, HDT, ILGA- Europe and ICJ interveners pursuant to the Section Registrar’s notification of 7 December 2016’, 2017 Abstract The AIRE Centre, ECRE, HDT, ILGA-EUROPE and the ICJ (hereafter, “the interveners”)The intervener submit that in interpreting the scope and content of the Contracting Parties’ obligations … Read more

UNHCR, ‘Guidelines on International Protection: Membership of a Particular Social Group within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees’, 2002 Abstract UNHCR issues these Guidelines pursuant to its mandate, as contained in the Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner … Read more