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...
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’...
15 June 2022 | Female genital mutilation, Women
NANSEN has analysed, based on the Council for Alien Law Litigation case law, the obstacles to the granting of international protection to victims of genital mutilation and those who fear it. The main aim of this Note, which is now available in French, is to provide...
