Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality

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.

Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi, ‘Guidelines on the transposition of the Asylum Qualification Directive: protecting LGBTI asylum seekers’, ILGA Europe, 2012 Abstract In 2004, the European Union adopted a Directive setting out rules governing minimum standards on conditions under which refugee status is granted as part of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS).1 It applies to third … Read more

VG Sigmaringen_Urteil vom 14.06.2012 – A6 K 737/12 In Kamerun werden Personen allein aufgrund einer (auch nur vermuteten) homosexuellen Orientierung ohne Anklage in Untersuchungshaft genommen. Dementsprechend droht bei Homosexualität eine Verfolgung im Sinne von § 60 Abs. 1 AufenthG.