Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality

ILGA Europe, ‘Seeking refuge without harassment, detention or return to a “safe country” – ILGA Europe Briefing on LGBTI Refugees and Asylum’, February 2016

Forced Migration Review (FMR) 42, April 2013 (special issue on sexual orientation and gender identity and the protection of forced migrants) Abstract Around the world, people face abuse, arbitrary arrest, extortion, violence, severe discrimination and lack of official protection because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. This latest issue of FMR includes 26 articles … Read more

Case of O.M. v. Hungary, Application no. 9912/15, 5 July 2016

International Commission of Jurists, X, Y and Z: a glass half full for “rainbow refugees”?, 2014

Decision of the Fifth Section of the ECtHR in the case of M.E. v. Sweden, Application no. 71398/12, 26 June 2014

Nora Markard, ‘Sexuelle Orientierung als Fluchtgrund – Das Ende der »Diskretion« – Aktuelle Entwicklungen beim Flüchtlingsschutz aufgrund der sexuellen Orientierung, Asylmagazin, 3/2013, S. 74–84

ECRE, ‘Preliminary Deference? The impact of judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU in cases X.Y.Z., A.B.C. and Cimade and Gisti on national law and the use of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights’, March 2017

UNHCR, Guidelines on international protection: Gender-related persecution within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (HCR/GIP/02/01, 2002).

AT (Iran) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2005] UKAIT 00119

Home Office. Asylum Policy instruction. Sexual orientation in asylum claims. Version 6.0 (2016)