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Human Rights Council

The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations system, consisting of 47-member states that the UN General Assembly elects. It was founded in 2006 to replace the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The council is responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights internationally, as well as addressing situations of human rights violations and providing recommendations to mend them.

The Human Rights Council holds its regular sessions three times a year, in March, June, and September. It reviews and votes on renewing the mandate related to the human rights situation in Iran every March.

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Press Release – Impact Iran hails the HRC for establishing a UN Fact-Finding Mission into the human rights situation in Iran

Impact Iran hails today’s establishment by the Human Rights Council (“HRC”) of an international independent inquiry into Iran’s ongoing crackdown on nationwide popular protests as a watershed moment.  By a majority of 25 versus 6, and 16 abstentions, the main UN human rights body established an “international independent fact-finding mission” ...

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Impact Iran applauds Germany’s initiative for a Special Session on human rights in Iran and calls for the swift establishment of an investigative accountability body

Impact Iran applauds the German Government’s recent announcement of its decision to support a Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council on the grave human rights situation in Iran, with a view to “establish[ing] a UN mechanism” to ensure that “evidence can be collected and documented.“ We welcome German ...

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#SS35: Statement from Javaid Rehman – UNSR on the human rights situation in Iran

Find a Persian translation of the statement here. 24 November 2022 Mr. President, Distinguished Delegates, Representatives of civil society, It is my honour to be with you today and to deliver a statement on behalf of the Coordination Committee of the Special Procedures and my own mandate. On 26 October, ...

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#SS35: Joint Statement – Iran Human Rights, ECPM & Impact Iran

ECPM, Iran Human Rights, and Impact Iran (a coalition of 16 NGOs including  Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, Article 19, KMM-KG, AHRAZ, All Human Rights for All in Iran, Baluch Campain, Center for supporters of human rights, European Ahwazi Human Rights Organization, ECPM, Human Rights Activists in Iran, IHRNGO, IHRDC, KURDPA, Outright ...

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Joint Statement: UN Human Rights Council must hold a special session on Iran

We are writing to raise our deep concerns about the Iranian authorities’ mobilization of their well-honed machinery of repression to ruthlessly crackdown on current nationwide protests.  The United Nations Human Rights Council should act as a matter of urgency by holding a special session and — given the gravity of ...

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UN Special Rapporteur on Iran’s findings point to the possible commission of international crimes

In a groundbreaking report released today, Javaid Rehman, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, declared that “the scale and gravity” of human rights violations he and his office have been documenting since the start of the protests in September 2022 “point to the possible commission ...

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HRC51 SIDE EVENT – Human Rights in Iran: Violent Crackdown on Women and Protestors

Date · Wednesday 5 October 2022 Co-sponsors STATE · Permanent Mission of Germany NGOs · Impact Iran, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, FIDH, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Femena, ISHR, International Commission of Jurists, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, ARTICLE 19, Association for Women’s Rights in Development ...

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HRC50: Submission to the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

A submission from Impact Iran and OutRight Action International, to the questionnaire issued by the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, for the report he will present to the Human Rights Council in June 2022. Read the ...

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