GENEVA (16 May 2022) – On the ocsn of the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, a group of UN and regnal human rights experts urged ernments to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr-diverse (LGBT) persons fleeg persecutn are protected agast vlence and treated wh digny. The experts issued the followg jot statement:
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WHAT'S LIKE TO BE A GAY REFUGEE?
* lgbt refugees issues *
Read More: Gay Pri Crackdown: 4 Thgs to Know About LGBTQ Rights Cuba“It is time to regnize the specific needs of LGBTI asylum-seekers and refuge and to give them the protectn they need, ” the UN’s report are three ways you n help LGTBQ refuge and asylum seekers. GENEVA (16 May 2022) – On the ocsn of the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, a group of UN and regnal human rights experts urged ernments to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and genr-diverse (LGBT) persons fleeg persecutn are protected agast vlence and treated wh digny. GENEVA (22 March 2022) - As the Rsian Feratn’s aggrsn agast Ukrae tensifi, is sential for Stat and all stakeholrs engaged protectg forcibly displaced persons to regnise and rpond to the uniquely genred exposure to risk and protectn needs of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, tersex (LGBTI) and genr-diverse refuge, asylum seekers, ternally displaced and undocumented people, a UN expert said today.
Mahmoud Hasso, a Syrian journalist and gay blogger who works at a refugee shelter Berl, answers the qutn. I started bloggg 2006, an effort to help Iraqi lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) refuge.
That's when I set up my Arabic onle gay magaze, Mawaleh. In 2015, the German gay rights anisatn Schwulenberatung Berl started a Queer Refuge Project, and I got a job their day centre. Is there anythg about beg gay the Middle East that would surprise people?
GENEVA (22 March 2022) - As the Rsian Feratn’s aggrsn agast Ukrae tensifi, is sential for Stat and all stakeholrs engaged protectg forcibly displaced persons to regnise and rpond to the uniquely genred exposure to risk and protectn needs of lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, tersex (LGBTI) and genr-diverse refuge, asylum seekers, ternally displaced and undocumented people, a UN expert said today. * lgbt refugees issues *
I have been out sce 2003, although I never adopted the mastream Wtern ia of a 'gay liftyle'. Livg as an openly gay person a untry where homosexualy is crimalised was hard.
Most Syrians knew about homosexualy, but they tend to avoid speakg about openly. It's bee impossible for LGBT Syrians to pe wh the homophobic attacks, vlatns, and murrs perpetrated by all sis of the nflict. What was like to grow up gay the Middle East?