New video resources from UKLGIG on claiming asylum if you’re LGBTQI+
The organisation UKLGIG have made really useful video resources about claiming asylum if you are LGBTQI+.
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Uganda’s anti-LGBT+ law may be back
According to the Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lokodo, the Ugandan government is intending to re-table the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, that threatened to become law five years ago.
Reuters news agency reports that the bill will be re-introduced in parliament in the coming weeks and is expected to be voted on before the end of the year.
Read more A history of providing sanctuary? LGBT+ asylum claims in the UK
As LGBT History Month draws to a close, it seems timely to review the progress – and lack of it – in the treatment of… Read more »
Read more Home Office asylum policy guidance: sexuality
In February 2015, the Home Office issued new asylum policy guidance on sexual identity issues in asylum interviews.
This policy guidance can be seen as a positive step in Home Office attempts to address this unacceptable situation. Policy guidance, however, is not necessarily the same as what happens in practice.
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Country info – LGBTI people in Jamaica
To be granted refugee status in the UK you need to prove that you have a well-founded fear that, if you were returned to your country of origin, you would be persecuted for one of the reasons covered by the Refugee Convention, and that the government/authorities in your country could not protect you from this persecution.
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LGBTI asylum claims – the difference, stigma, shame, harm model
Since the landmark 2010 Supreme Court judgment in which it was ruled the Home Office could not tell LGBTI asylum-seekers that they could go back to their country of origin and ‘live discreetly’, the Home Office has shifted its tactics in refusing asylum claims.
Read more Criminalisation of homosexuality = persecution?
A ruling from the European Court of Justice in November 2013 has divided lawyers and campaigners: was it a positive judgement for the rights of LGBTI asylum seekers, or not?
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