Across Iran, women continue to find small ways to assert individuality, resist, and stretch the boundaries

relations are explicitly banned in 72 countries, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran’s Islamic Republic has had a theocratic form of governance, in Iran’s Islamic Republic has severely restricted social and political freedoms, especially for women. Her death resulted in a massive protests in Iran and around the world. Under Iran’s penal code, homosexuality is punishable by death. Pezeshkian promised  to make Iran more prosperous, open, and engaged with the West.

Shia Islam is the dominant faith in Iran. Baha’is are Iran’s most significant non-Muslim religious minority. Protests against the regime have since erupted throughout Iran. of Iran’s population. Iran's laws encourage state and societal violence against them.

Iran's national flag flies in the capital, Tehran [File: Vahid Salemi/AP] The strategy is not a novelty The data associated with the death penalty in Iran uncovers that minorities are being disproportionately

By Michał Jagielski Protesters hold up a placard reading "Stop Execution in Iran" as they take part in Iran executed four Kurds by hanging on Jan. 29, 2024, having found them guilty of charges of collaborating Photograph: AFP The Kurds, along with other ethnic minorities in Iran, have been suffering from systemic When all of Iran’s actions are taken into account, it is clear that its objective is to “menace the existence In this light, Iran’s campaign against the Kurds can be understood as a form of cultural genocide, a

Berlin, whose Senate administration oversees immigration enforcement — are set to take effect in less than The protests in question include a mass sit-in at the Berlin central train station, a road blockade, Longbottom, who is trans, lives in Berlin with their partner, an Italian citizen. “As a trans person, the idea of going back to the U.S. right now feels really scary.” Wlaszczyk, who is also trans, hasn’t lived in Poland since the age of ten.

Alert for Genocide: USA Jan 20, 2025 Today was a hard day for many people, especially immigrants and trans Socialist movement in Germany saw Jews as its principal and cosmic enemy, although Jews constituted less than a host of other groups for sterilization, torture, murder, and ‘partial’ elimination, such as gays, trans Trans people, refugees, and migrants are not the threats.

By Stuart Williams Inmates detained inside one of Iran's largest prisons have for the last two days staged Commons The protest at Ghezel Hesar prison in the city of Karaj outside Tehran was triggered by the transfer of up to 16 inmates to solitary confinement ahead of execution, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights ( which is outlawed by Iran, said that 1,500 prisoners were involved in the action. IHR said that two of the prisoners transferred to solitary confinement had been returned to the general

Andrea González, a prominent activist and leader in the transgender women’s organisation Otrans Reinas She joined Otrans in 2013 as a community health promoter, worked as a nurse at the group’s trans women “Every day the human rights of trans people are being violated,” she said. A rally for trans rights outside Guatemala’s constitutional court, 17 May 2021. lives, and to pass a comprehensive trans rights law.

One of the boys was asking me to take off my clothes but I begged: ‘It’s better if you just kill me than More than 4,000 civilians have been killed and at least 712,000 displaced within and outside the country

Kanyabayonga is home to more than 60,000 people, as well as tens of thousands who have fled there in