SYRIAN REFUGEE AND ORAM REPRESENTATIVE SUBHI NAHAS BRIEFS U.N. AT FIRST-EVER MEETING ON LGBT RIGHTS
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ORAM is an international non-profit organization devoted to capacity-building and advocacy on behalf of the world’s most vulnerable refugees, including those fleeing persecution based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
ORAM delivers highly innovative research, tools, trainings and empirically based assessment programs to refugee professionals and institutions around the world. ORAM’s programs and activities are designed to uphold the integrity of the international refugee system, in turn giving exceptionally vulnerable refugees the protection they need and deserve.
Speech:
Subhi Nahas Speech. Download in English, Arabic, French.
Subhi Nahas Personal Essay
Making History: Telling My Story to the U.N. Security Council
Q&A in Arabic: www.oraminternational.org/en/programs/375-fleeing-persecution-ara
Press Release:
08/24/2015: Syrian Refugee and ORAM Representative Briefs U.N. Security Council at First-Ever Meeting on LGBT Rights
News:
08/27/2015: U.N. Security Council hears persecuted LGBTs' stories
08/25/2015: ISIS Wanted to Kill Me for Being Gay
08/25/2015: Historic day for LGBT rights, says UN ambassador - video
08/25/2015: UN Security Council Tackles ISIS Violence in First-Ever LGBT Rights Meeting
08/25/2015: Gay Men Face Horrors At The Hands Of The Islamic State, But Few Can Resettle in the US
08/25/2015: Gay Refugees Addresses U.N. Security Council in Historic Meeting on LGBT Rights
08/25/2015: ISIS targets gay people using Facebook and phone contacts, Iraqi refugee tells UN
08/25/2015: U.S. Convenes First UN Security Council Meeting on Gay Rights
08/25/2015: UN council hears from gays who fled ISIL terror
08/25/2015: U.N. Security Council holds first LGBT rights meeting
08/24/2015: Islamic State focus of U.N. Security Council’s first LGBT meeting
08/24/2015: Two Gay Men Who Fled ISIS Just Made U.N. History
08/24/2015: Gay Men tell U.N. Security Council of being ISIS targets
08/24/2015: UN council holds meeting on LGBT rights under ISIS
08/24/2015: UN council holds first-ever meeting on LGBT rights
08/24/2015: Gay Men Tell UN Security Council of Being IS Targets
08/24/2015: UN council holds first-ever meeting on LGBT rights
08/24/2015: Islamic State group claims it killed 30 people for sodomy, gay rights organization tells UN
08/24/2015: Gay Men Testify to UN Security Council About Horrors of ISIS Regime
08/24/2015: ISIS LGBT Persecution: At UN Security Council Meeting, Gay Islamic State Victims In Syria And Iraq Discussed
08/24/2015: UN council hears from gays who fled IS terror
08/23/2015: Gay and Marked for Death
08/13/2015: ORAM reopens San Francisco office
08/06/2015: Openly Gay Syrian Refugee Living In Oakland To Make Historic Appearance at UN
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