This report is submitted by theIranian Queer Organization(IRQO) and the Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI) It focuses on the human rights violations of transgender persons living in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), who face discrimination, and are victims of violence on the basis of their gender identity. click here to download this report.
[checklist] Orginal Surce Download: HTML PDF Index Number: MDE 13/058/2013 Date Published: 20 December 2013 Categories: Iran [/checklist] IRQO joined Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and IGLHRC in an open letter to President Hassan Rouhani of Iran to express their concerns about the government sanctioned systematic persecution of citizens perceived to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or […]
To: Member States of the UN General Assembly Your Excellency: We, the undersigned human rights and civil society organizations, write to urge your government to vote in favor of resolution A/C.3/68/L.57 on the promotion and protection of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran during the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, […]
Mehr News Agency, an Iranian official news agency, is reporting that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has cracked down on a “large circle of Satanism and Sodomy” in the city of Kermanshah. Many other websites close to the government are also reporting the same news. Mehr reports that the “circle” had “tens” of members, […]
[checklist]TORONTO –[/checklist] Canada’s first openly-gay premier, Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne, will march into history later this month when she becomes the first sitting premier to take part in Toronto’s annual gay pride parade.Wynne, who is married to Jane Rounthwaite and has three children and two grandchildren, said attending gay pride activities is an annual event for […]
Two gay men who said they faced persecution in their home countries have the right to asylum in the UK, the Supreme Court has ruled. The panel of judges said it had agreed “unanimously” to allow the appeals from the men, from Cameroon and Iran.They had earlier been refused asylum on the grounds they could […]
[checklist]By Hossein Alizadeh[/checklist] [checklist]Commemorating June 20, World Refugee Day[/checklist] Just two years ago, Arash and Javad (not their real names), two young Iranian men were building their future together. Arash was pursuing a successful career in Iran’s financial sector and Javad was a university student in Tehran. Now the men live in abject poverty in […]
Lawyer says former ED tried to overthrow board Resource: dailyxtra.com Douglas Elliott, the lawyer for the board of the Toronto-based Iranian Queer Organization (IRQO), says former executive director Arsham Parsi tried to illegally take control of IRQO and has ignored requests to help account for donations the organization received prior to July of this year. […]
