Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality

Schmidt, Frank, LSBTI mit Fluchtgeschichte in Berlin: Zur besonderen Bedürfnislage geflüchteter Menschen mit schwuler, lesbischer, bi-, trans- oder intersexueller Orientierung und Identität (LSBTI) und daraus ableitbaren Interventions- und Konzeptionsmöglichkeiten Sozialer Arbeit, Bachelorarbeit zur Erlangung des Akademischen Grades „Bachelor of Arts“ (B.A.) im Studiengang „Soziale Arbeit“ an der „Alice Salomon“ – Hochschule für Sozialarbeit und Sozialpädagogik … Read more

Dustin M. and Ferreira N., ‘Canada’s Guideline 9: improving SOGIE claims assessment?’, 2017 Forced Migration Review 56 (October), at http://www.fmreview.org/latinamerica-caribbean.html and SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3020950 Abstract Asylum seekers making claims relating to their sexual orientation and gender identity often face unfair refusal. New guidance from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada takes admirable steps towards improving claims assessment, and offers a model … Read more

Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, ‘An Investigation into the Home Office’s Handling of Asylum Claims Made on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation March-June 2014’, 2014

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

Human Rights Watch, “They Have Long Arms and They Can Find Me”. Anti-Gay Purge by Local Authorities in Russia’s Chechen Republic, 2017.

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

Written Comments of FIDH, APDHE, ILGA-EUROPE, ECSOL, and UKLGIG on Application No. 15109/15, M.B. v. Spain, European Court of Human Rights, Third Section, Submitted on 15 January 2016

H. Crawley, T. Lester, ‘Comparative analysis of gender-related persecution in national asylum legislation and practice in Europe’, UNHCR, 2004.

Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 31 March 2010 at the 1081st meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies