On Monday, August 24th, the United Nations (U.N.) Security Council will host its first-ever meeting on LGBT rights hosted by the U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and Chile’s U.N. Ambassador Cristian Barros Melet.
As part of that historic meeting next week, Subhi Nahas, an openly gay Syrian refugee who escaped persecution by ISIL and is now an advocate at the San Francisco-based ORAM - Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration, will brief the Security Council on his experience. Nahas is ORAM’s official representative at the meeting and works with the organization to advocate for and assist other gay refugees, like him, who seek safety and freedom.
ORAM’s founder and executive director, Neil Grungras, will be accompanying Nahas in New York. Grungras is the leading international expert on LGBT refugees. A refugee attorney with over 30 years of experience in the public and private sectors, he has trained dozens of UN, government and NGO offices in LGBT refugee protection and adjudication.
