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
Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality
Decision of the Fifth Section of the ECtHR in the case of M.K.N. v. Sweden, Application no. 72413/10, 27 June 2013
ILGA Europe, ‘Protecting the rights of LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees in the reform of the Common European Asylum System’, 2016
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR Guidance Note on Refugee Claims Relating to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, 21 November 2008 Note: These Guidelines are replaced by the 2012 Guidelines on International Protection No. 9: Claims to Refugee Status based on Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity within the context of Article 1A(2) of the … Read more
ILGA Europe, ‘Seeking refuge without harassment, detention or return to a “safe country” – ILGA Europe Briefing on LGBTI Refugees and Asylum’, February 2016
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Guidelines on International Protection No. 9: Claims to Refugee Status based on Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, 23 October 2012, HCR/GIP/12/01 Note: These Guidelines replace the UNHCR Guidance Note on … Read more
Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi (author) and Joël Le Déroff (editor), ‘Laying the grounds for LGBTI sensitive asylum decision-making in Europe: transposition of the Recast Asylum Procedure Directives and of the Recast Reception Conditions Directive’, ILGA Europe, May 2014
UN Committee Against Torture, K. S. Y. v. The Netherlands, Communication No. 190/2001, 15 May 2003, CAT/C/30/D/190/2001
Sabine Jansen (author) and Joël Le Déroff (editor), ‘Good practices related to LGBTI asylum applicants in Europe’, ILGA-Europe, May 2014
VG Ansbach, Urteil vom 21.08.2008, AN 18 K 08.30201 Kein Abschiebungsverbot gem. § 60 Abs. 5 AufenthG hinsichtlich Irans wegen bisexueller Neigungen.