ProfNuno Ferreira
(he/his/him)
Professor of Law (Law)
School of Law, Politics and Sociology
Orcid identifier0000-0002-7416-9074
- Professor of Law (Law)School of Law, Politics and Sociology
- +44 (0)1273 873644 Ext.3644 (Work)
IMPACT SUMMARY
- Submissions to the UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in response to the Call for Input: Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in relation to forced displacement, both on behalf of the SOGICA project and the NQIfFM project. In the final report (UN Doc. No. A/HRC/59/43, UN Human Rights Council, April 2025), the SOGICA submission was referenced in paras. 26, 62 and 65, and the NQIfFM submission was referenced in paras. 61, 66 and 79.
- Member of the Vulnerability Working Group in charge of developing the 'Practical Guide on applicants with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and sex characteristics' published by the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), 2024.
- Journal article ‘Improving SOGI Asylum Adjudication: Putting Persecution Ahead of Identity’, Refugee Survey Quarterly 40(3), 315–347 (co-authored with Moira Dustin) cited by the Canadian Federal Court in Mohammed v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2023 FC 956.
- Participation in follow-up meeting of the ‘2021 Global Roundtable on Protection and Solutions for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer (LGBTIQ+) Persons in Forced Displacement’, organised by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the UN Independent Expert on Protection Against Violence and Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (UN IE SOGI) (by invitation), Geneva, Switzerland (UNHCR report here).
- Submission to the UK Parliament’s Justice and Home Affairs Committee’s ‘Family migration’ inquiry, 12 September 2022 - report with references to SOGICA contribution available in UK House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee, ‘All families matter: An inquiry into family migration’, 2023.
- Oral evidence to ‘Equality and the UK asylum process’ inquiry, Women and Equalities Committee, 23 February 2022 - report with references to SOGICA contribution and oral evidence available here.
- SOGICA written evidence cited in ‘Brexit: refugee protection and asylum policy‘, 48th Report of Session 2017–19, House of Lords, European Union Committee, UK Parliament, 11 October 2019 (co-authored with Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin and Nina Held).
- Co-author of contribution by School of Law, Sociology and Politics of the University of Sussex to the Inquiry 'Ensuring strong equalities legislation after EU exit', cited in the final report.