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 →
Human rights dissolving at the borders? Counter-terrorism and criminal law in the EU
The central argument of this report is that it is in the breach, not in the respect of human rights, that security is put at risk. Amnesty International’s analysis seeks to propose ways in which the European Union could act to ensure that its approach to terrorism not only acknowledges but actively incorporates the need … Continue reading Human rights dissolving at the borders? Counter-terrorism and criminal law in the EU →
Human Rights dissolving at the borders? Counter-terrorism and EU criminal law: executive summary
The full report is also available in this digital library. The central argument of this report is that it is in the breach, not in the respect of human rights, that security is put at risk. Amnesty International’s analysis seeks to propose ways in which the European Union could act to ensure that its approach … Continue reading Human Rights dissolving at the borders? Counter-terrorism and EU criminal law: executive summary →
Delivering on human rights: Amnesty International’s ten-point program for the UK Presidency of the European Union
Includes a number of concerns regarding asylum and security.
2005 UN Commission on Human Rights: The UN’s chief guardian of human rights?
Includes both general recommendations and individual case studies regarding civilians, among whom are displaced persons, refugees and asylum seekers.
2005 UN Commission on Human Rights: the UN’s chief guardian of human rights? executive summary
The full document is also available in this digital library
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.
