UNHCR, ‘Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of 2018Du34558 regarding claims for refugee status based on sexual orientation and gender identity’, 2018

Category: Other
Source: UNHCR
Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Refugee/Asylum, Human Rights, LGBT+
Place: Asia, Other
Year: 2018
File: 5a9d6abf4
URL: https://www.refworld.org/docid/5a9d6abf4.html

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ‘Submission by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of 2018Du34558 regarding claims for refugee status based on sexual orientation and gender identity’, 26 February 2018

Abstract

These observations are submitted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (“UNHCR”) in relation the case 2018Du34558, in which matter an application for leave to appeal is currently before the Supreme Court of Korea.

Key words

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI); Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; Social group discrimination; Social group persecution