Saghi Ghahraman is an Iranian lesbian poet and gay rights activist who lives in Toronto. Born in 1957 in the holy city of Mashhad, she studied classic and contemporary Persian literature at Azarabadegan University in Tabriz.[checklist]She left Iran in 1982 after attacks on the women’s organization she worked at, and was a refugee in Turkey […]
Transsexuals face tough times from their families, discrimination in medical circles, are branded homosexual. [checklist]By Aresu Eqbali – TEHRAN Javad says he never felt quite right in his body, and for the past two years he has risked having his “arms and legs broken” by a family that refuses to accept his efforts to sort […]
Woman wins court battle for father’s approval to marry schoolfriend who has undergone sex-change operation.Iran is set to allow what is believed to be its first transsexual marriage after the would-be bride asked a court to override her father’s opposition to the match. [checklist]The woman, named only as Shaghayegh, told Tehran’s family court that she […]
Iranian news services reports that well over a thousand gender reassignment operations have been carried out between 2006 and 2010. State medical records indicate that from 2006 to 2010, 1,366 Iranians acquired permits to undergo sex change operations. Khabar-on-line reported on Monday that 56 percent were seeking male-to-female surgery and 44 percent were female-to-male operations.Iranians seeking […]
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 […]
Three years ago this month, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad famously told a New York audience that Iran doesn’t have any homosexuals. An aide later clarified that Ahmadinejad meant that Iran doesn’t have many homosexuals compared with America. [checklist] Human rights groups say the Islamic republic continues to execute homosexuals. Gay and lesbian Iranians are […]
Economic Social Cuturla Rights of LGBT in Iran This shadow report is submitted to the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (hereinafter “CESCR” or “the Committee”) on the occasion of its 50th Session (29 April – 17 May 2013) by Global Initiative for Sexuality and Human Rights of the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs […]
Iranian Queer Organization – IRQO Report on Iranian LGBT Refugees Turkey – 2013 Transit Countries Violation of LGBT rights is not limited to those LGBT individuals living in Iran. IRQO regularly receives significant number of sexual harassment reports from its clients in transit and host countries due to several reasons such as lack of legal […]
Iranian Queer Organization – IRQO Report on Violations on LGBT Human Rights in Iran – 2011 Humanity Denied: Concluding Remarks “In Iran we do not have homosexuals” but an oppressed group of individuals whose humanness is not recognized by the government because they fail to respect heterosexual norms. They are gender outlaws subject to discrimination, […]