18 September 2023 | SOGI, Women
This practice guide was written by Lore Roels and Liselot Casteleyn, both researchers at Ghent University. The guide focuses on the importance and implications of a ‘gender sensitive’ procedure for international protection applications. This approach explains the...
22 June 2023 | Iran, Proof and credibility
NANSEN focuses here on the assessments of the credibility of conversions in Iranian cases, thus, the assessments of sincerity of religious belief in Iranian cases. This NANSEN Note discusses the assessment framework for determining the credibility of religious belief...
23 January 2023 | Reception
As more and more of us are saying it sharply: denying reception to those seeking international protection constitutes a serious violation of their human dignity. It does them a profound injustice. It jeopardizes their effective access to asylum. It is a sign of...
8 December 2022 | Forensic report, Victim of torture
Here is an analysis of the case law (2021) of the Council for Alien Law Litigations (CALL) . The weight given to forensic reports prepared by Constats vzw for the determination of a well-founded fear of being persecuted or a real risk of suffering serious harm is...
6 December 2022 | Congo, SOGI, Women
Here, NANSEN analyses two individual situations which have in common that they concern Congolese women, victims of sexual violence constituting torture in their country of origin. In both cases, psychological reports were filed, attesting to the applicants’...
