JAssist (short form for “JoopeA Assists”) is a project that helps small organizations, activist groups and individuals in restricted countries to have their secure website and web services at no costs.
We believe every one on the planet has the right to have a voice. By lowering the risks and costs of having a website for people in restricted countries, we grantee their voice is being heard.
JAssist is small project at the moment and can assists few groups.
If you are interested to make this project bigger to give this opportunity to more people, you can help us by donations or other types of help.
Are you living in a restricted country under censorship rules? Yet, you want to increase knowledge in your language, write articles about the situation, have an small news blog or even have your online poems notebook?
Red Dot Project is for you.
We offer free hosting and web-service such as building a website to individuals and small groups.
There are many interesting posts and services provided by JoopeA Foundation such as many articles that are being published every day on JNews. You might want to re-use, copy part or full article or use JoopeA’s services. We are more than glad to welcome you too. All JoopeA’s services & outputs are under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) v4 International except where noted. Copy full or part of articles, using of services, etc. for personal or enterprise are allowed as while as your work has the same license and mention it’s sources. We believe in community work & building a better world together.
The Trademark List and Logos List below set out an illustrative, non-exhaustive list of trademarks owned by JoopeA Foundation, as well as suggested generic terms for those products.
In case you would like to mention, link to us or our products, here are some logos & official English names with legal notes that you need to attach:
The JoopeA™ and the logo below is registered Trademark of JoopeA Foundation. Trademark & logos are public domain & you may use the logo but only to refer to the JoopeA Foundation.
JoopeA Foundation Logo
The IranPride® brand is registered by JoopeA™ Foundation. All rights are reserved for JoopeA Foundation. You may use the brand without permission for non-profit purposes related to Iranian & Persian-speaking queers. JoopeA reserves all rights to prohibit any entity to use this brand.
IranPride Flag
The JoopeA News (in Persian: کارگاه خبر ژوپیآ), JoopeA Club (JClub – in Persian: کلوپ ژوپیآ), JNewsNL (in Persian: ژوپیآ برای هلند), JAssist & affiliate brands & logos that are listed below are sub-licensed by JoopeA™ Foundation.
You might want to know more details about JoopeA Foundation banking information or need to confirm these such info as bank account number. Here are our banking information:
Account name: Stichting JoopeA
IBAN: NL90 INGB 0006 6858 71
Account number: 0006 6858 71
Bank: ING Nederland
BIC/Swift: INGBNL2A
VAT number: NL854432838B01
Registration no: KVK61656127
Address:
Stichting JoopeA
Post box: 22339
1100 CH Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Queer hobo poet has been called Elham Malekpoor Arashlu since 29th July 1983 has published several collections of poetry, most of which have been banned or censored in Iran and has had several writings published or non-published including poetry, short story, article and research; by own name or various aliases. The theoretical human rights activist who believes in saving the world with words.
El is also known as a human rights activist who is particularly dealing with child labor and queer rights and keeps the fame of a poet who has been active in both the literary domain and in human rights activities. A semi-blind has graduated from both agricultural engineering and Persian literature and had be on the Protective Fellowship Scheme for Human Rights Defenders at Risk at the center for applied human rights at the university of York and had work on the “Historicizing HOMAN” project on the first group engaged in writing the history of sexual minorities in Iran during staying at York.
El was a member of JoopeA since the beginning (2009). She is participating and cooperating as an adviser and editor. Elham joined the management team in 2015, created JoopeA’s editorial guideline, JoopeA’s members guideline and new organization Status. She is the main organizer of Homophilia Campaign & major actor for IranPride campaign.
Unfortunately, she had to leave us as permanent member due to her savior health problems on 25th of July 2018. We miss her always.
To be in touch with El, you can follow her Twitter or send her direct email using this form:
He was born short after 1979 revolution in Vasfenard, a neighborhood in south of Tehran. He was raising in a middle class religious family among three other siblings.
He was interested in poetry and storytelling since childhood. He was spending most of his time in reading novels and poems since he left university.
He is writing in several newspapers, websites and blogs.
He believes in agnostic, socialism, ٰpoststructuralism and anarchism. He is active in workers unions and left wings, ethnicity minorities, queer rights and children rights.
He starts working as chief editor in JoopeA foundation since January 2014.
You can send email to editor [at] joopea [dot] com to be touch with him.
Raham Rafiee is the founder of JoopeA Foundation, this very NGO that focuses on minorities issues inside Iran while also engaging in civil society activities on behalf of gender minorities within immigrant communities in Amsterdam.
Mr. Rafiee promotes awareness and dialogue within the primarily Middle Eastern immigrant communities in the Netherlands, where acceptance of gender minorities is limited and a source of high-profile political debate. As part of these efforts, Mr. Rafiee and JoopeA organized the first participation of Iranian Queers in Parade in Tehran back in 2010 & the first Iran Group in Amsterdam Pride Parade after.
He is enthusiastic computer programmer in many related fields. In Addition, he works in IT & Tech field.
JoopeA foundation has been registered under his name as chairman of board in Oct 2014 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
To be in touch with him you can follow his Twitter or Facebook account or send email to rafiee [at] joopea [dot] com
JoopeA, is a not-for-profit foundation on the field of Human Rights by focusing on LGBTIQ Rights & Internet Freedom. This group has been established in 2009 (1389) with cooperation and participation of number of queer bloggers, queer practitioners, Human Rights activists and professional programmers all as a network of friends.
We believe in A Free World as our ultimate vision. Thus, our mission is:
To promote universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the elimination of all forms of discrimination and stigmatization.
In Oct. 2014 this group was officially registered in Chamber of Commerce of the Netherlands based in Amsterdam by E. Rafiee as director. JoopeA has developed many different projects such as JNews, JAssist & many more, each & every focused to expand access to internet, freedom of speech, sexual rights & knowledge.
JoopeA believes in shared management and cooperative system. In the other words we don’t follow the traditional pyramid system of organizational management. While every member is responsible to fulfills their task, all decisions are made and tasks are assigned by mutual agreement of members. Main members of JoopeA are Raham, Elham and Nakisa.
JoopeA is non-profit organization & mainly operate by donations from organizations & individuals.
If you are interested in donating to JoopeA Foundation please visit this link.
