Housing rights
Investigation of the Rental Housing Situation in Iran / Bahar Abbasi
The decrease in the exchange rate, lack of government support, and absence of laws to protect tenants have caused a sharp increase in housing rent rates in Iran. Parvin, a sixty-year-old woman who has two daughters in college and currently lives in a marginalized neighborhood, says: “We haven’t been tenants for four years now and […]...
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Bahar Abbasi
September 22, 2020
Three episodes of Homelessness/Paniz’s Heroism
Episode 1: Chabahar Captives Location: Chabahar People were still struggling with the coronavirus when news broke that the tents of approximately thirty families from the marginalized community of Jangulak in Chabahar county were engulfed in flames and reduced to ashes. The cause of this incident was apparently a fire that broke out during cooking and […]...
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Paniz Ghahremani June 21, 2020
گرComplexities of widespread violations of the rights of sexual and gender minorities / Malikazargar
Why is the 17th of May important as the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia, and Intersexphobia? What challenges does this day bring us? When we talk about discrimination against sexual and gender minorities, what are we really talking about? In the laws of the Islamic Republic, same-sex behavior is considered a crime and even […]...
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Malika Zarini May 21, 2020
Notes on “Beneficence-Oriented” and “Rights-Oriented” Approaches and Justice / Elaheh Amani
“مراقب باشید” “Be careful” Goddess Amani Throughout the history of charity work, one of the approaches to dealing with social problems such as poverty, homelessness, hunger, and illness has been through charity actions. Charity actions, both on an individual and organizational level, have been one of the simplest, most immediate, instinctive, and emotional ways of […]...
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Created By:
Elahe Amani January 27, 2017
Human Rights and Gender Notes on Homelessness / Elahe Amani
This is a caption This is a caption Goddess Amani Homelessness is a bitter reality of today’s world that exists in all countries, despite their level of economic progress. Leilani Farha, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, expressed her serious concerns to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on March […]...
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Created By:
Elahe Amani December 26, 2016
