Resource Guides

These publications provide excellent guidance for people interested in setting up or improving support services to LGBT asylum seekers in the U.S. Click on images to download the reports.

Existing grassroots support groups are also useful ports of call for guidance to joining, or setting up an LGBT asylum support group. See here for more information.

Refugees and Asylees Have The Right To Work: What Employers Should Know

Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices

Violence Against LGBTI Persons

IACHR

Responding to Requests for Help

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If your work has to do with human rights for LGBT people, chances are that at some point you will be contacted by someone from another country who asks for help. They may say that they are in danger, or need to get out of their home country. How you reply could mean the difference between life and death for them. This sheet presents some of the lessons learned by people who have been getting and answering these kinds of requests for help.

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