Rainbow Migration, ‘Parliamentary Briefing: Ending the immigration detention of LGBTQI+ people’, 2023
- Category: Other
- Source: NGOs
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Migration, Human Rights, LGBT+
- Place: United Kingdom
- Year: 2023
- File: LGBTQI-Detention-Parliamentary-Briefing-September-2023-v4-Web
- URL: https://www.rainbowmigration.org.uk/publications/parliamentary-briefing-ending-the-immigration-detention-of-lgbtqi-people/
Rainbow Migration, ‘Parliamentary Briefing: Ending the immigration detention of LGBTQI+ people’, Rainbow Migration, 2023
Abstract
Around 70 countries worldwide still criminalise same-sex relations, some with the death penalty. LGBTQI+ people fleeing persecution leave their homes and families behind to seek safety in the UK, but are met with an increasingly hostile reception here and may face immigration detention.
Detention is inhumane and expensive, and LGBTQI+ people are not safe while detained. Indefinite detention takes a huge toll on a person’s mental health, and cannot be justified when compassionate and effective alternatives exist.
We are calling on the UK government to commit to:
➢ End the immigration detention of LGBTQI+ people
➢ Implement a cumulative 28-day time limit on all immigration detention
➢ Accelerate the introduction of more compassionate programmes to support people in communities instead of detaining them