Under the new UNHCR guidelines, governments reviewing asylum requests from Iraqis from the semi-autonomous northern region and the south are urged to assess whether claimants are at direct risk because of their religious, ethnic or professional affiliation, or their sexual orientation.
"We are now saying rather than blanket consideration, these people can be given individual interviews to determine their status," [UNHCR Spokesman Ron] Redmond said, saying that specific groups of people in those regions may still require protection.
These include public officials, U.N. and other aid workers, journalists, human rights activists, homosexuals, and people seen to be affiliated with opposing armed groups, political factions, multinational forces and foreign companies, he said.
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