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UKLGIG launch new report: No Safe Refuge

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Detention Action report notice summarising UKLGIG and Stonewall's No Safe Refuge report on LGBT asylum seekers in detention.

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Start with the answer How did LGBTQ+ asylum protection develop? LGBTQ+ asylum protection developed as refugee law recognised persecution based on sexual orientation and gender identity, then tested whether asylum systems treated claimants safely and fairly. Read the topic guide LGBTQ+ Asylum and Refugee Protection LGBTQ+ asylum protection developed through refugee-law precedents, EU qualification rules, UK Supreme Court case law, inspection findings and detention-policy scrutiny.

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Open original source https://detentionaction.org.uk/2016/10/27/uklgig-launch-new-report-no-safe-refuge/ Accessed 4 June 2026 Open archived copy https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://detentionaction.org.uk/2016/10/27/uklgig-launch-new-report-no-safe-refuge/

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LGBTQ+ Asylum and Refugee Protection

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How did LGBTQ+ asylum protection develop?

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2016 DiscriminationUK

'No Safe Refuge' Report Exposes Abuse of LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers in Detention

Stonewall and the UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group published 'No Safe Refuge', documenting discrimination and violence against LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in UK immigration removal centres including Yarl's Wood and Brook House. Detainees were bullied, harassed, and physically attacked. LGBTQ+ people were housed alongside people from the communities they were fleeing, and trans women were placed in male facilities.