Mulé and Gates-Gasse / Envisioning LGBT Refugee Rights in Canada, ‘Envisioning LGBT Refugee Rights in Canada’, 2012
- Category: Other
- Source: Other
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Refugee/Asylum, Human Rights, LGBT+
- Place: Americas
- Year: 2012
- URL: http://www.ocasi.org/downloads/Envisioning_Exploring_Asylum_Issues.pdf
Nick J. Mulé & Erika Gates-Gasse, OCASI / Envisioning LGBT Refugee Rights in Canada, ‘Envisioning LGBT Refugee Rights in Canada: Exploring Asylum Issues’, June 2012
Abstract
This document summarizes three events organized by the Canadian Team of Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: a roundtable discussion about issues experienced by LGBT refugees and the agencies that serve them held in Toronto on February 22, 2012; a panel discussion at the National Metropolis Conference in Toronto on March 2, 2012, entitled “A New Balancing Act for Sexual Minority Refugees? Potential Impacts of Refugee Reform for LGBT Asylum in Canada”; and a panel discussion at the Rainbow Health Ontario Conference in Ottawa on March 23, 2012, entitled “What we need to know (and do) about the health and well-being of LGBT asylum seekers”.