A/HRC/34/56 acts, being pushed off a tower to their deaths by militants of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.53 87. Violence committed against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride parades has been justified by religious representatives, such as in Croatia, 54 where some Catholic clergy argued that participants at the 2011 parade in Split “got what they deserved”, alongside a professor of the Catholic Theology College calling for the lynching of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender marchers. 55 In July 2015, marchers in the Jerusalem pride parade were assaulted, resulting in the death of Shira Banki, 16,56 at the hands of an ultra-Orthodox man who had recently been released from prison after stabbing three participants at the 2005 march. He has since been sentenced to life in prison for the 2015 attack. 88. Violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people highlights the transnational nature of fundamentalisms and extremisms. For example, Christian fundamentalist leaders and groups from the United States have reportedly supported an anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender agenda in Uganda, through speeches and funding.57 89. One common theme among fundamentalist- and extremist-inspired assaults on cultural rights has been to quash expression of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender themes and positive representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons. For example, movies or plays portraying homosexual relationships have been banned in various countries. D. Attacks against educational institutions, personnel and students 90. Fundamentalists everywhere target education in different ways. In some places, they kill teachers or carry out acid attacks on students. Elsewhere they attempt to impose gender segregation in schools or to exclude women and girls altogether. In other places, they seek to change the content of education, removing sex education from the curriculum or censoring scientific theories with which they do not agree. 58 91. Fundamentalist movements such as Boko Haram (often translated as “Western education is a sin”) repeatedly target educational institutions and students, of which the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in April 2014 is only one terrible example. In April 2015, AlShabaab attacked Garissa University in Kenya, killing 147 students, with Christian students particularly targeted. 59 There has been widespread targeting of girls’ schools by fundamentalist armed groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the Arakan State in Myanmar, destruction of Muslim schools both by authorities and Arakanese mobs influenced by 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 OHCHR, press briefing notes on ISIL/Iraq, 20 January 2015. Jan Postić, “Sexual orientation and gender identity activists challenge regressions in Croatia”, AWID, 30 January 2014. “Split Pride Organizers ask the State Attorney’s Office to investigate priest Ante Mateljan!?”, available from www.bitno.net/vijesti/hrvatska/organizatori-split-pridea-traze-od-dorh-a-istraguprotiv-svecenika-ante-mateljana/. Tal Dahan, “Situation report: the state of human rights in Israel and the OPT 2015” (Association for Civil Rights in Israel, 2015), p. 4. Jeffrey Gettleman, “Americans’ role seen in Uganda anti-gay push”, New York Times, 3 January 2010. Cornelia Dean, “Evolution takes a backseat in U.S. classes”, New York Times, 1 February 2005. Security Council press statement on Al-Shabaab attack in Garissa, Kenya, SC/11850-AFR/3104, 3 April 2015. 19