Coverage of HRW report
BBC World Service 'Newshour' (audio). Includes interview with Iraqi LGBT's Ali HiliBBC Radio Four 'Today' (audio): Gay killings 'normal' in IraqCBC (Canada) interviews Tom Porteous, London director of...
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Iraqi LGBT Annual AccountsIraqi LGBT Annual Report
View ArticleIraqi LGBT welcome Human Rights Watch report on pogrom, urges practical aid
PRESS RELEASEFor immediate useIraqi LGBT welcome Human Rights Watch report on pogrom, urges practical aidThe Iraqi LGBT group today welcomed the release by Human Rights Watch of its report 'They want...
View ArticleThe Observer - How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill...
Iraqi militias infiltrate internet gay chatrooms to hunt their quarry – and hundreds are feared to be victims. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/13/iraq-gays-murdered-militiasSitting on the...
View ArticleTERROR CAMPAIGN AGAINST LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER IRAQIS...
IRAQI LGBT – November 2009 – The rise of fundamentalist groups in Iraq since the 2003 U.S. led invasion has proven deadly to LGBT Iraqis, who are now being forced to either hide or face the...
View Article720 brutally murdered as 'gay cleansing' continues unchecked in Iraq
An organization dedicated to securing asylum for LGBT refugees from Iraq estimates that over 720 LGBT men and women have been murdered by extremist militias in the last six years.London-based Iraqi...
View ArticleSupport for LGBT Iraqi Refugees
Rep. Tammy BaldwinSenator Kirsten GillibrandSource: Office of Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin - February 4GILLIBRAND, BALDWIN TO SEC. CLINTON: SAVE LGBT REFUGEESLGBT Individuals Tortured and Killed in Iraq...
View ArticleOutrage as UK government refuses to take action on asylum application by...
Press statement24 March 2010 For immediate useOutrage as UK government refuses to take action on asylum application by Iraqi gay leaderAction demanded of Gordon Brown and Alan JohnsonForeign Office...
View ArticleChange.org launch petition for Iraqi LGBT
Iraqi LGBTPress statementFor immediate use31 MarchChange.org launch petition for Iraqi LGBTGreen leader writes to JohnsonGay Iraqis praise 'our hero'The major American progressive organisation...
View ArticleIraq 7 Years Later: A Journey of Return
Seven years after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, New Internationalist co-editor Hadani Ditmars returned to a land she last visited in October 2003 to research her book Dancing in the No Fly...
View ArticleAli Hili campaign update
First campaign coverage in Middle East, first direct comment by government on caseLabour's election web campaign supremo asks Johnson to act1000 sign petition in fortnight, hundreds of letters to...
View ArticleAmnesty International: Iraq must protect civilians at risk of deadly violence
27 April 2010Amnesty International on Tuesday called on the Iraqi authorities to urgently step up the protection of civilians amid the recent surge of deadly violence in the country.A new Amnesty...
View ArticleIraqi LGBT receives Monette-Horwitz award
Iraqi LGBT is honoured to have received a 2010 Monette-Horwitz Trust Award.The awards were established in the will of the late novelist Paul Monette to recognize his relationship with the late Roger...
View ArticleIraqi LGBT takes part in International Day against Homophobia
Camden LGBT Forum Saturday 15 May, 2.30PMThe 52 Club, Gower StreetTalks by Ali Hili, Reverend Roland Jide Macaulay, Exhibition of Paul Harfleet's amazing Pansy Project, Songs by Pilar Awa, Exclusive...
View ArticleFrom Baghdad to Blantyre: Gays in Iraq express solidarity with gays in Malawi
Press statementIn a message from Baghdad, lesbians and gays living in hiding from death squads in that city have expressed their solidarity with the Malawian gay couple Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven...
View ArticleEvent: Celebrate launch of new Iraqi LGBT website
Image via WikipediaHABIBI CLUB LONDONBEST MIDDLE EASTERN LGBT CLUB NIGHT IN LONDONCOME and CELEBRATE the Launch of LGBT IRAQI SOLIDARITY GROUP web site10% of door takings going to the LGBT Iraqi...
View ArticleVideo: Iraqi government complicity in anti-gay pogrom
Iraqi LGBT presents evidence of government forces actions against gays and transgender people in Iraq.Testimony smuggled out of Iraq shows how police and Interior Ministry forces are terrorising LGBT...
View ArticleIraqi LGBT extremely concerned by new plans for UK removals of refugees to Iraq
Asylum seekers from Iraq facing deportation from Britain. Left to right: Ali Namiq, Rahman Rasoul, anonymous refugee, Sirajadin Hosmadin Bahadin. Photograph: Sean Smith for the GuardianPress...
View ArticleIraqi LGBT launch new website
Press StatementFor immediate useIraqi LGBT launch new websiteLondon, June 10 - The human rights group Iraqi LGBT is launching a new website iraqilgbt.org.uk this Saturday June 12 from 9pm at Habibi...
View ArticleIraqi LGBT to apply for charitable status, provides interim accounts
Media releaseFor immediate useIraqi LGBT to apply for charitable status, provides interim accounts10 July 2009The Iraqi LGBT organisation has today provided interim accounts for its Syria operations...
View ArticleGay Life After Saddam
Guardian reviewWhat terrific reporting from Aasmah Mir in Gay Life After Saddam (BBC Radio 5 Live). It looked at the grim reality for gay, lesbian and transgender people living in Iraq, and the reasons...
View ArticleUSA TODAY - Militias target some Iraqis for being gay
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2009-07-28-gays-in-iraq_N.htmBy Paul Wiseman and Nadeem Majeed, USA TODAYBAGHDAD — The young man turns to the camera and pleads with his tormentors."I'm not a...
View ArticleLondon Group Spent £60,000 Last Year to Aid Gay and Transgender Iraqis
£24,000 donated by public, Iraqi LGBT accounts to 31 May showsIraqi LGBT, the London-based group that support gay, lesbian and transgender Iraqis, received just over £60,000 in donations in the year to...
View ArticleWelcome To Iraqi Lgbt
مثليي العراقDonations only through PayPal our account: iraqilgbt@yahoo.co.ukIraqi Lgbtiraqilgbt@yahoo.co.ukFriends can send Donations to IRAQI LGBT:The immediate urgent priority is to Support and...
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