- LGBTQ asylum-seekers in Europe subjected to stereotyping and humiliation, rights group says
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LGBTQ asylum-seekers in Europe subjected to stereotyping and humiliation, rights group says
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Club Time Pts. BEL Leuven Aquatics 50m Men Women. Navid Jafartash fled Iran in because he feared for his life: He is gay, and homosexuality is illegal in Iran and in some cases punishable by death. He went to Vienna, where he spent several years and had established a life for himself until his asylum-seeking journey hit a roadblock this year.
Austria, as a European Union member, offers asylum to those who can prove that their sexual orientation would put them in danger if forced to return to their country of origin, like Iran or Afghanistan, that persecutes LGBTQ people. A number of human rights activists, academics and lawmakers say that asylum decisions in Europe — a beacon for many fleeing countries where persecution based on sexual orientation and gender identity is common — are often based on discriminatory or ignorant attitudes, and that there is a need to redesign a system that tends to ignore the lived realities of LGBTQ asylum-seekers and makes the process unnecessarily isolating and dangerous.
At times, the system may erase their experience altogether. In Italy on Thursday, the government passed a law restricting asylum rights to war refugees and victims of political persecution. The E. In another asylum case out of Austria, an year-old from Afghanistan, who had arrived in Austria as a minor, had his asylum application denied in August apparently because he did not seem gay enough.
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In Belgium, a lesbian couple seeking refuge reportedly faced anti-gay discrimination and violence in a unisex asylum center in the village of Kapellen. That is too dangerous. We feel illegal here.
She specifically called out the Chechnya region of Russia and Azerbaijan. Among the challenges Mijatovic specifically cited, is the lack of a uniform interpretation of international standards across Europe when addressing asylum-seekers.