Looking through the kaleidoscope: a guide to best practice in determining applications for refugee status based on sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex grounds

This guide lays out for the first time a framework for processing refugees fleeing persecution because of sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex grounds. Overview This Guide has been developed to: provide reliable information regarding what constitutes best practice in determining applications for refugee status based on sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex grounds; assist governments to properly and fairly assess applications for refugee status made on sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex grounds; provide refugee advocates and NGOs with a tool to assist them to effectively represent asylum seekers in their claims