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.
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- 'GAYROPA': CHALLENG AND HOP OF EUROPE'S LGBT+ REFUGE – PICTUR
- 'GAYROPA': CHALLENG AND HOP OF EUROPE'S LGBT+ REFUGE – PICTUR
- "CONSTANT FEAR" FOR GAY REFUGE EUROPE'S SHELTERS
- CURRENT MIGRATN SUATN THE EU: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND TERSEX ASYLUM SEEKERS
'GAYROPA': CHALLENG AND HOP OF EUROPE'S LGBT+ REFUGE – PICTUR
In his photojournalism seri Gayropa, Bradley Secker profil dividuals om around the world who have ma the difficult cisn to migrate to Europe and claim asylum bee of their sexualy * lgbt refugees europe *
“Gayropa” is a disparagg name often ed by Rsian nservativ and officials to refer to Europe, signifyg both a lack of acceptance towards LGBTQ+ people, and a perceived separatn between east and wt terms of attus towards LGBTQ+ rights. The people are the oppose of victims, and they e their strength to move their liv forward, refg the term “Gayropa” as they do so.
Many of those photographed have also faced discrimatn exile: xenophobia and racism om host societi (cludg the LGBTQ+ muny), and homophobia and transphobia om fellow asylum seekers and the lol populatn. Origally om Raqqa, Syria, Hamoudi was forcibly outed as gay at the age of 13, when he was ught havg sex wh a male iend.
Faris works at ‘Queer Base’ Vienna’s gay-iendly district.
'GAYROPA': CHALLENG AND HOP OF EUROPE'S LGBT+ REFUGE – PICTUR
'Gayropa': Challeng and Hop of Europe's LGBT+ Refuge – Pictur. “Gayropa” is a disparagg name often ed by Rsian nservativ and officials to refer to Europe, signifyg both a lack of acceptance towards LGBTQ+ people, and a perceived separatn between... * lgbt refugees europe *
This n range om excsive drkg and unprotected sex to the more extreme behavur, where migrants engage sex work, sometim lled “survival sex”, or bee the play thgs of predatory olr men lookg to explo their vulnerable mental and legal a rise of vlent homophobic attacks the UK and creasg natnalism and xenophobia across the rt of Europe, LGBTQ+ refuge want “Gayropa” to live up to s name, the fullt and most posive sense of the word.
Origally om Dhaka, Banglash, Mir was a proment member of the gay muny. Some like Hamoudi, Mir and Faris e om untri where their sexualy is crimalised, and others like Igor and Sergi grew up plac where homophobia has bee an creasgly polil topic recent years. In B (Gambia) and C (Swzerland) v Swzerland, the ECtHR led that Swzerland had vlated the ECHR, Article 3 when removg a Gambian gay applint who would face persecutn and a real risk of ill treatment his untry of orig.
The Feral Admistrative Court (FAC) Swzerland held that unbearable psychologil prsure for homosexuals Syria jtifi grantg refugee stat to a Syrian man whose applitn had prevly been rejected. The man had not ially claimed he was gay his applitn, but his appeal to the se he explaed that this was a ma reason for havg left Syria. Amid a rise of vlent homophobic attacks the UK and creasg natnalism and xenophobia across the rt of Europe, LGBTQ+ refuge want “Gayropa” to live up to s name, the fullt and most posive sense of the word.
"CONSTANT FEAR" FOR GAY REFUGE EUROPE'S SHELTERS
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. Trans, lbian, gay, queer, bisexual, asexual or tersex, n away om fai and societi that discrimate agast them bee they are not pliant wh the hetero-normative culture.
The rults will be published by September 2020 and thanks to the ntributn of ERC and the IMISCOE (Internatnal Migratn, Integratn and Social Cohn Europe), sarà accsibile gratuamente a rults are also accsible through vios ma wh LGBTQIA refuge (lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, tersex and asexual); a particularly novative choice for an amic rearch project.
"Constant fear" for gay refuge Europe's shelters.
CURRENT MIGRATN SUATN THE EU: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND TERSEX ASYLUM SEEKERS
BERLIN -- Alaa Ammar fled Syria to pe not jt civil war but also the threat of persecutn as a gay man. Yet when he arrived The Netherlands last sprg, he did not fd the safe haven he and four other gay travelers had to face newly arrived asylum seekers at a migrant center the remote northern town of Ter Apel. Across Europe, gay, lbian and transgenr migrants say they suffer om verbal, physil and sexual abe refugee shelters, and some have been forced to move out.
The s suggt a possible cultural clash: Many migrants are g om nservative Mlim untri where homosexualy is taboo to European societi that are more open to . In Syria, for example, homosexualy is illegal, and the ant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has killed more than 30 gays those two untri over the past two years, activists say. The number of migrants acced of gay abe are jt a ty actn of the hundreds of thoands of refuge streamg to Europe.
However, most abe is likely not reported bee of European privacy laws and the stigma felt by gay migrants, and there is no official tally across the Germany, the Lbian and Gay Feratn unted 106 s of vlence agast homosexual and transgenr refuge the Berl regn om Augt through the end of January. Most of the s me om refugee centers, and 13 clud sexual Steert, head of the feratn Berl-Brannburg, said refuge have been askg gay groups for help all over the untry, reluctant to approach police for fear of jeopardizg their asylum applitns.