Stockholm Pride 2024 shines a light on LGBTIQ+ persons forced to flee

Pride House

Conversations about LGBTQI people’s asylum cases – challenges and possible solutions

📅 2 August, 11:00 – 11:45

Reasons are identified and measures and solutions are discussed to ensure and maintain legal certainty in the asylum process and to guarantee the individual assessment for LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers. Does Sweden live up to the requirements for a legally certain review for this target group and how does it ensure that fundamental rights are respected? What solutions and measures are available?

Moderator: Alexandra Politidis Palm, Policy Advisor RFSL Ungdom

Participants: Elin Hayman Blomgren, Associate Legal Officer at UNHCR’s Representation to the Nordic and Baltic Countries

Rustem Yunusov – National Coordinator LGBTIQ+, Swedish Migration Agency

 

How many people seek asylum in Sweden based on their sexual orientation and/or gender identity/expression and where do they come from? New research from Uppsala University

📅 2 August, 12:00 – 12:45

In almost 70 countries, same-sex relationships are criminalized and in another 9 countries laws that criminalize gender identities/expressions. Some LGBTIQ+ people in these countries are fleeing and are seeking asylum in Sweden. But what do we know about who comes here and where they come from? Thomas Wimark, Associate Professor of Human Geography at Uppsala University, presents brand new data from an ongoing research project.

 

Health and migration – experiences shared by an LGBTQ refugee

📅 2 August, 13:00 – 13:45

In this seminar you will listen to LGBTIQ+ refugees from countries where the context is very different from Sweden. We will shed light on the current situation for LGBTIQ+ people in Uganda and Russian speaking countries and the challenges people face.

Furthermore, we will focus on being an LGBTIQ+ migrant in Sweden. From that perspective lived experiences related to access to information and health care will be shared. What is it like in Sweden? Can you, as a refugee, access information and health care when needed? Do you get accessible information about your rights? Is there room for improvement?

 

Who is seeking asylum in Sweden because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity/gender expression and what does this mean for the continued work of supporting LGBTI asylum seekers?

📅 2 August, 14:00 – 14:45

People who seek asylum in Sweden because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity/expression face particular challenges. Knowledge about the group is needed to be able to design a process and support that is safe and legally secure. Thomas Wimark, Associate Professor in

Human Geography at Uppsala University has in its research produced statistics that provide new knowledge about group of LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum in Sweden and about asylum decisions. The results of the research and their significance is discussed in a panel with: Rustem Yunusov (National Coordinator LGBTIQ+ at the Swedish Migration Agency), Alexandra Politidis Palm (lawyer and policy advisor at RFSL Ungdom), Rebecca Thorburn Stern (Professor of International Law at Uppsala University) and Ayan Nassozi (board member Rainbow Refugees Sweden and Refugee Speaker 2024).

All of the above events will take place at Pride House, Clarion Hotel Sign, Östra Järnvägsgatan 35, 111 20 Stockholm.

 

🎤 2024 Refugee Speakers Ayan and Purity are speaking at multiple events during Stockholm Pride. To listen to their stories and experiences, check out the full Pride program here. 

 

 

Pride Parade 

📅 3 August, 13:00 – Norr Mälarstrand, Stockholm

UNHCR Representation to the Nordics and Baltics will be marching in the Stockholm Pride Parade in solidarity with LGBTIQ+ refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people. Come say hi!

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