{"id":3028,"date":"2021-04-23T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6rang.org\/english\/?page_id=3028"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:16:52","slug":"submissions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/6rang.org\/english\/submissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Violence and Discrimination Experienced by Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer (LBQ) Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran<\/h3>
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Submission to the UN Independent Expert documenting structural violence, criminalization, and forced control over LBQ women in Iran. (February 2026)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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The Situation of LGBT+ Children in Iran Hello<\/h3>
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Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child highlighting systemic discrimination, violence, and rights violations affecting LGBT+ children in Iran. (February 2026)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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State-Sponsored and Societal Lesbophobia in Iran, 2024\u20132025<\/h3>
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Submission to the EL*C Observatory examining how state policies and digital culture reinforce lesbophobia and enforced invisibility in Iran. (November 2026)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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Voices Suppressed, Identities Criminalized: The Systematic Weaponization of Hate Speech Against LGBTQI+ Individuals in Iran<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Voices Suppressed, Identities Criminalized: The Systematic Weaponization of Hate Speech Against LGBTQI+ Individuals in Iran<\/h3>
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Submission on Hate Speech Against LGBTQI+ Individuals in Iran, April 2023 to present, to the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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They See Us as Criminals: The Forces Driving LGBTIQ+ Displacement from Iran<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

They See Us as Criminals: The Forces Driving LGBTIQ+ Displacement from Iran<\/h3>
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Submission to the UN Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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State-sponsored Hate Speech and Lesbophobia in the Iranian Community<\/h3>
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A submission to EL*C Observatory on Lesbophobia<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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Gender-Related Killings of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Islamic Republic of Iran<\/h3>
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In response to call for inputs for the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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Human Rights Violations against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in Iran<\/h3>
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Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review 48th Session of the UPR Working Group<\/p>\n

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Situation of Iranian LBTI Women\u2019s Rights to Participate in Sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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Submission in response to the calls by the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls and the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights for input on the right to participate in sports<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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Iranian Lesbian and Transgender Women in Sport<\/h3>
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Submission to the United Nations
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Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review 34th Session of the UPR Working Group<\/h3>
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In Nov 2019, we presented recommendations to the 34th UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on abuses against LGBTIQ people in health-care settings in Iran, focusing on reparative conversion therapies, sterilization and sex reassignment surgeries as well as persecution of LGBTI communities\u2019 members.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) <\/h3>
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6rang provided a submission on the rights of Iran-based LGBTIQ people with disabilities in April 2017. The submission highlights reparative therapies as well as forced and substandard sex reassignment surgeries causing impairment among LGBTIQ communities in Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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Follow-up Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child <\/h3>
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6rang presented a report in January 2016, in response to the replies of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) to the list of issues at the 71st Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, addressing discrimination against LGBTI children in Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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The situation of LGBT Children in Iran <\/h3>
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For the third periodic review of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 6rang submitted its recommendations in June 2015, so as to draw attention of the UN committee to human rights abuses suffered by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) adolescents in Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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IRAN Disciplining Bodies, Diagnosing Identities; Mandatory Veiling, Mandatory Sterilization, Sexual Torture and the Right to Bodily Integrity in the Islamic Republic of Iran<\/h3>
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Jointly with Justice For Iran (JFI), a submission was prepared in November 2014, for the 20th<\/sup> session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), focusing on three core sets of practices that are paradigmatic examples of impermissible barriers to the realization of the right of women and transgender people to control their body and sexuality: mandatory hijab [veiling] laws, reparative therapy and mandatory sex reassignment surgeries, and sexual abuse and torture of women prisoners of conscience.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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