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Contents:

• GAY ASYLUM SEEKER FALLY FEELS SAFE CANADA
• CANADA QUIETLY GIV ASYLUM TO GAY PEOPLE FLEEG PERSECUTN RSIA
• HOW CANADA HAS BEEN SECRETLY GIVG ASYLUM TO GAY PEOPLE CHECHNYA FLEEG PERSECUTN
• CANADA QUIETLY GIV ASYLUM TO GAY PEOPLE FLEEG PERSECUTN RSIA

GAY ASYLUM SEEKER FALLY FEELS SAFE CANADA

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Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ+) refuge face unique challeng when they flee persecutn their home untri and e to Canada to seek protectn. This rabow mosaic is pated on a brick wall the gay quarter of Montreal and signifi gay 2012 Gay Pri Para Montreal, Québec.

Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ+) refuge claimg protectn Canada mt show that they have a well-found fear of persecutn bee of their genr inty or sexual orientatn, and they mt also show that their state is unable or unwillg to protect them. In addn, 1977, the Canadian Immigratn Act was amend, liftg a ban prohibg gay men and women om immigratg (see also Immigratn Policy Canada). For example, as a rult of the UNHCR namg sgle men intifyg as gay, bisexual, or transgenr as among those who are most vulnerable Syria (and need of urgent relotn to another untry), Canada rettled a number of gay Syrian men due to their high gree of risk (see Canadian Rponse to the Syrian Refugee Crisis).

CANADA QUIETLY GIV ASYLUM TO GAY PEOPLE FLEEG PERSECUTN RSIA

As a rult of an creased vlent crackdown on gay men Chechnya (a republic wh the Rsian Feratn), Canada’s Mistry of Foreign Affairs spearhead a unique secret program to quickly rettle the men om Rsian safe ho to Canada. In April 2017, the Rsian newspaper Novaya Gazeta (Новая газета) reported that Chechen thori had lnched anized vlent attacks agast gay men, which was verified by lol and ternatnal anizatns.

Chechen thori began roundg up men who were spected of beg gay, and taed, and tortured them. However, Canada was the only untry to adopt a methodil program to rettle gay Chechens fleeg active persecutn. While the Chechen rettlement efforts have been succsful, at least one gay Chechen man who had e to Canada was attacked Toronto by men om the Canadian-Chechen diaspora.

HOW CANADA HAS BEEN SECRETLY GIVG ASYLUM TO GAY PEOPLE CHECHNYA FLEEG PERSECUTN

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CANADA QUIETLY GIV ASYLUM TO GAY PEOPLE FLEEG PERSECUTN RSIA

Our LGBT clients clu Canadian cizens and Canadian Permanent Rints who have foreign same-sex gay and lbian partners who want to beg a shared life together Canada, or gay and lbian upl and dividuals who wish to immigrate to Canada on their own.

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Our gay-iendly knowledgeable staff clu Regulated Canadian Immigratn Consultants RCIC – CICC, former Canada Immigratn and Cizenship officer, and associate Canadian Immigratn Lawyers. He fled his home untry 2017 after beg the first person to e out as gay and HIV-posive on Kenyan televisn. The Kenyan thori issued a warrant of arrt for Barasa as homosexualy is illegal Kenya.

And sometim they actually para you [around] and they say this is a gay man om Kenya, he is applyg for asylum bee he is gay, who else is gay here. The officer’s report stat: “Your claim is totally ntradictg untry rmatn of Kenya as claimed there is fully protectn of the state only the public are the on who are gay and lbian acrdg to the untry rmatn of Kenya and this matter should have been reported to the police [sic].

Simply bee I am gay and I dared to speak about , ” he says.

As a gay man, he didn't feel like he uld live his life back home Brazil whout fear of judgment and settlg Canada durg the panmic proved to be a challenge. Maïmouna Dman, who intifi as bisexual, says sheoften suffered mockery, homophobic sults and disparagg looks back Ivory Coast. "All that was not possible and that really affected the mental health of the people who joed , " said says racism and homophobia still exist Canada and n still affect the LGBTQ+ refuge who e here lookg to pe those very same thgs.