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Sexuality and integration: a case of gay Iranian refugees’ collective memories and integration practices in Canada

ABSTRACT During the past two decades, Canada has accepted hundreds of LGBT asylum seekers, including gay Iranian men. Sociologists of sexualities and migration have yet to study this group as immigrants whose sexualities play a central role in their social interactions, immigration, and integration practices. Taking integration as a category of practice and relying on … Continue reading Sexuality and integration: a case of gay Iranian refugees’ collective memories and integration practices in Canada

When Is Immigration Detention Lawful? The Monitoring Practices of UN Human Rights Mechanisms

Global Detention Project Working Paper No. 21 By Mariette Gange and Izabella Majcher February 2017   This Global Detention Project Working Paper details how the banalisation of immigration detention is contested by international human rights mechanisms. Since the creation of the United Nations, the global human rights regime has provided a framework for the protection … Continue reading When Is Immigration Detention Lawful? The Monitoring Practices of UN Human Rights Mechanisms

Indonesia: the role of human rights in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami: a briefing for members of the consultative group on Indonesia 19 – 20 January 2005

This document outlines human rights issues following the natural disasters in Indonesia, and includes concerns regarding those displaced.

No turning back: full implementation of women’s human rights now! 10 year review and appraisal of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action

Includes concerns regarding the human rights of refugee and displaced women

Turkmenistan: the clampdown on dissent and religious freedom continues

Includes concerns regarding failed asylum seekers forcibly returned to Turkmenistan.

Lebanon: a human rights agenda for the parliamentary elections

Includes a number of points regarding Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

Burundi: refugee rights at risk: human rights abuses in returns to and from Burundi

This report is the product of research missions to refugee camps in Kigoma and Kagera regions and Ulyankulu settlement of first wave refugees in Tanzania’s Tabora region in late 2004, as well as to officials in these regions and in Dar es Salaam. Amnesty International delegates also visited Bujumbura, Rural Bujumbura, Makamba, Bururi, Ngozi, Kirundo, … Continue reading Burundi: refugee rights at risk: human rights abuses in returns to and from Burundi

Summit of the Americas: our call for human rights: a message from Amnesty International members in advance of the Fourth Summit of the Americas

Includes a section on the rights of refugees and migrants in the region

More resources for human rights: a ten-point program for the Luxembourg Presidency of the European Union

Includes a number of concerns regarding asylum.