Queer Asylum and the EU Return System: Challenges and Risks - Roundtable
Channel: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Date: 2021-12-17

Roundtable: Building Networks of Solidarity between LGBTQI+ movements in Germany and Eastern Europe 

The EU Dublin III-return system risks jeopardizing the transfer safeguards for LGBTIQ+ refugees and asylum seekers within the EU. This symposium examines the challenges the EU Dublin III-return system creates for LGBTIQ+ asylum claimants – particularly considering the increasingly politically motivated homo- and transphobia in some EU member states – and seeks to amplify best practices for the protection of LGBTIQ+ identifying asylum claimants within the EU. 

How are rights-based protections enshrined within the European Charter of Human Rights (ECHR) and that apply to LGBTIQ+ refugees and asylum seekers living in EU reception countries uphold in the context of Dublin III? How should human rights standards be guaranteed within national and local legal frameworks and practices? We ask.


Moderation of working groups: 

- Danijel Cubelic (ECCAR)
- Lilith Raza (LSVD) 

With contributions from: 

- Biljana Ginova (LGBTI Equal Rights Association for Western Balkans and Turkey); 
- Milena Adanczewska (Humanity in Action Fellow, Poland)
- Krisztina Orbank (Transvanilla Transgender Association, Hungary)
- Knud Wechterstein (Rainbow Refugee Support Frankfurt, Germany).