UNHCR, ‘UNHCR’s Comments on the Practice of Phallometry in the Czech Republic to Determine the Credibility of Asylum Claims based on Persecution due to Sexual Orientation’, 2011
- Category: Reports
- Source: UNHCR
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Refugee/Asylum
- Place: Europe
- Year: 2011
- File: 4daed0389
- URL: https://www.unhcr.org/protection/operations/4daed0389/unhcrs-comments-%20practice-phallometry-czech-republic-determine-credibility.html
UNHCR, ‘UNHCR’s Comments on the Practice of Phallometry in the Czech Republic to Determine the Credibility of Asylum Claims based on Persecution due to Sexual Orientation’, 2011
Abstract
The following comments of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (hereinafter “UNHCR”) on the practice of phallometry in the asylum procedure of the Czech Republic are made in the context of UNHCR’s supervisory responsibility which is set out under its Statute, Article 35 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (hereinafter “the 1951 Convention”), and Article II of its 1967 Protocol.