‘perversion’, as it advocates against the use of violence against students and therefore may discourage teachers from confronting students of diverse sexual orientation or gender identity.62 Students are reportedly physically and mentally abused by teachers and school administrators because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, pushing them in some cases to drop out from school.63 In 2016, the Committee on the Rights of the Child specifically raised concerns about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex children in the Islamic Republic of Iran Iran facing discrimination because of their real or perceived sexual orientation or identity.64 The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and the Iranian Queer Organisation (IRQO) have documented a pattern of bullying and physical and sexual abuse of LGBT children by classmates and school authorities in high school, middle school, and sometimes elementary school. LGBT Iranians reported that from young ages, their classmates would aggressively mock them for perceived gender non-conformity. Gay and transgender teenagers enrolled in all-boys schools often faced sexual groping and assault by their male classmates as well as physical beatings. In some cases, LGBT interviewees reported rape and even group rape as students.65 66 While some teachers and school administrators take measures to confront bullying and abuse, often abuses are allowed to continue largely unaddressed. LGBT students receive very little protection from abuse in schools. Moreover, according to testimonies collected by IGLHRC and IRQO, teachers and school administrators participate in or lead the abuse at times, often humiliating the students in front of their classmates for mannerisms seen as improper for the student’s gender. IGLHRC and IRQO have also documented several instances of sexual abuse and rape of LGBT students, namely in boys’ schools, by teachers and school administrators. In these cases, interviewees often expressed that the adult targeted them because of a perceived vulnerability or isolation, stemming from gender expression. 67 There are several means and mechanisms for accepting complaints regarding the violations of citizens' rights, such as the Article 90 Commission of the Parliament,68 or Oversight Bodies for the exercise of Citizenship Rights in the country's provincial courts.69 There is no readily available information that might suggest that complaints regarding LGBTI children’s rights violations are addressed, investigated and adjudicated. Although the Iranian National Body for 62 Quote from Assembly of Experts member Ahmad Alamolhoda, among other examples, cited in Small Media, 2018, https://smallmedia.org.uk/media/projects/files/BreakingTheSilence_2018.pdf 63 Iranian Lesbian & Transgender Network (6Rang), 2015, https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CRC/Shared%20Documents/IRN/INT_CRC_NGO_IRN_19808_E.pdf 64 Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2016, https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4&Lang=En 65 Ahmad’s (not his real name) interview with IGLHRC, September 7, 2012, Kayseri, Turkey 66 Nima’s (Not his real name) interview with IGLHRC, September 7, 2012, Kayseri, Turkey 67 See more: Joint alternative report by civil society organizations on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2015, https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CRC/Shared%20Documents/IRN/INT_CRC_NGO_IRN_19809_E.pdf 68 The Article 90 Commission was established to receive the citizens' complaints against government institutions and has the responsibility to review them and transmit cases for judicial procedure accordingly. 69 These committees have the responsibility to oversee the strict implementation of the "Law on Respect for Legitimate Freedoms and Civil Rights” 8