A troubling new report from the United Nations has brought to light the use of electric shock therapy and other forms of inhumane treatment against LGBTQ children and teens in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Rainbow Faith and Freedom joins our international friends and partners in denouncing and condemning the ongoing use of torture against members of the LGBTQ community.

The use of electric shock therapy, involuntary hormone treatment and psychoactive drugs are practices that violate the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child.

These methods of torture are being employed as attempted conversion therapy, a practice and concept against which RFF stands firmly opposed in all nations and in all faiths.

Iran continues to criminalize consensual sexual relations between men with the death penalty and between women with one hundred lashes.

We will continue to implore religious and political leaders to end this devastating treatment of LGBTQ people, particularly children, and will work to facilitate positive social change both within Canada and abroad.