Houzan Mahmoud: Kurdish women's rights activist and representative of Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq speech at a conference in Genoa-Italy in June 2011. The conference was organsied by Marea Magazine- a group of Italian feminists. This conference was hosted to also mark the anniversary of the anti globalisation demonstrations in Genoa which were supressed by the state.

New barbaric attacks started against the Iraqi lgbt in many cities like Baghdad and Basra while using inhumane methods such as hitting the head and body parts of gay victims with building concrete blocks repeatedly till death or by pushing them over high building roof which took place in Basra city. The actions of killings, torture, and dismembering against those who were described as “adulterous” by Islamic Shia militias, besides hanging lists on the walls of several sections in Al-Sadr city and in Al- Habibea region, had all terrorized the society at large and especially the Iraqi lgbt community, knowing that those attacks are directed against anyone suspected with gay practices or appearance.