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Crossing borders between international refugee law and international human rights law in the European context: can human rights enhance protection against persecution based on sexual orientation (and beyond)?
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posted on 2023-06-09, 18:42 authored by Carmelo DanisiIn the last decades, international refugee law (‘IRL’) and international human rights law (‘IHRL’) have increasingly taken into account sexual minorities’ needs. Despite not being one of the grounds of persecution under the 1951 Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees, sexual orientation has been identified as a relevant factor for the recognition of refugee status for more than twenty years. In parallel, IHRL has evolved to a point where sexual minorities are more fully included within the scope of rights and freedoms set forth in universal and regional human rights treaties, especially via the prohibition of discrimination. Yet, strange as it may seem, this simultaneous evolution has not always led to a fruitful intersection between IRL and IHRL, even in terms of interpretation despite what the Law of Treaties requires. Drawing from documentary and qualitative data and by taking people fleeing homophobia as example, this article looks at the role that IHRL may play in complementing and in intersection with IRL. It argues that IHRL may, firstly, raise obligations to facilitate the access of these claimants to asylum determination procedures and, secondly, inform the notion of persecution used in IRL more comprehensively than it currently does in practice.
Funding
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum: A European human rights challenge; G1968; EUROPEAN UNION; 677693
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Publication status
- Published
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- Accepted version
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Netherlands Quarterly of Human RightsISSN
0924-0519Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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4Volume
37Page range
359-378Department affiliated with
- Law Publications
Research groups affiliated with
- Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research Publications
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- Yes
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- Yes
Legacy Posted Date
2019-08-22First Open Access (FOA) Date
2019-08-28First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-08-28Usage metrics
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