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Empowerment and free time activites for queer refugees
Unfortunately the list of participants for the Waldschlösschen meeting is full. Please don’t register anymore.
Are you part of the LGBTIQ+ community and at least 18 years old?
Do you speak English, Arabic or Farsi?
Would you like to get to know other queer refugees and enjoy exciting workshops, nature and free
time with them?
Then register now for our empowerment days at the Waldschlösschen.
29 April 2024, 5pm – 02 May 2024, 1pm
At the Akademie Waldschlösschen
Bildungs- und Tagungshaus
37130 Reinhausen bei Göttingen
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What can you do as a queer refugee against violence and bullying?
Queer refugees who experience LGBTIQ* hostility are significantly more frequently affected by depression, stress and a lower level of life satisfaction. This tends to apply more to queer refugees in asylum centres. Queer refugees are therefore considered an especially vulnerable group in German asylum centres in accordance with the “Minimum Standards for the Protection of Refugees in Refugee Accommodation”. This makes it all the more important to press charges against perpetrators.
Charges – but against whom?
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New: Publication of the Federal Office’s terminology list for language mediation in asylum procedures with reference to sexual orientation and/or gender identity (SOGI)
The new guide in Arabic, Dari, English, French, Pashto, Persian, Russian, Turkish and Urdu is an invitation to learn more about sexual and gender identities. In Germany, too, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, intersex and queer people (LGBTIQ*) experience marginalisation in their everyday lives, which needs to be addressed sensitively but clearly. Our aim with this […]