Iran
The GALE Right to Education Monitor still has to be done in Iran.
Interested to become a reporter? Contact info@lgbt-education.info.
Relevant Conventions
Convention against Discrimination in Education | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
Convention on Technical and Vocational Education | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
Convention on the Rights of the Child | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
Links to interesting articles
- "Homosexuality is a curable sickness, not a normal behavior" (March 2013)
- Ban Ki-moon's report on the situation of human rights in Iran (A/67/327) (UN Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon's report raises concerns over the persecution of LGBT people in Iran, including the death penalty for same-sex relations, October 2012)
- Iran shuts down the Internet: The how and why (Article by Scott Long, January 2012)
- HR Committee Concluding Observations on Iran (November 2011)
- Iran Submits to LGBT Report to UN Human Rights Committee Review for First Time in 18 Years (October 2011)
- IRQO Report on LGBT Human Rights Violations in Iran (September 2011)
- Submission to the Human Rights Committee for the 103rd session of the Human Rights Committee (September 2011)
- Discrimination and Violence Against Sexual Minorities (December 2010, Human Rights Watch press relase on report about discrimination and violence of LGBT people in Iran).
- The Global Gay Rights Battlefields (Article on the fearful lifes of LGBT people in Iran, by Max Strasser in foreignpolicy.com, December 2010).
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This page was last updated on 23 November 2012.