You Don’t Look Like A Lesbian: Asylum Aid highlights the difficulties faced by victims of sexual violence when seeking protection in the UK.

When Nina (not her real name) went into her interview she was alone. Having been beaten because of her sexuality, and raped by her own father, Nina was forced to flee the only home she ever knew. When she went to the UK authorities she thought she had found help. But they wouldn’t believe her. And she had nobody to advise her on what to do. Adding to a growing list of evidence of unfair questions being put to vulnerable people seeking protection in the UK, the charity Asylum Aid…

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