https://undocs.org/A/HRC/44/53Norway to prioritize resettlement for some LGBTQ refugeesNorway will prioritize LGBTQ asylum seekers and refugees in a new three-year resettlement plan, the Scandinavian country's government announced last week."We are now changing the guidelines for the work of transfer refugees so that persons who are queer should be given priority," Grunde Kreek Almeland, the state secretary for integration affairs in the ministry of education, said in a July 5 news release.The new policy works in coordination with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Qualified LGBTQ refugees — individuals and groups — are those who are already registered with the UNHCR and have been transferred from one asylum country to.