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Joint CSO letter calling for the renewal of the mandate of the SR on Iran

12/03/2021

We, the undersigned Iranian and international human rights organisations, call on your government to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran at the 46th session of the Human Rights Council. We also urge your government to use this opportunity to voice concern at the grave and systematic violations of human rights reported by the Special Rapporteur, and to call on Iranian authorities to put an end to the endemic impunity that surrounds these violations.

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URGENT INTERNATIONAL ACTION NEEDED TO SECURE RELEASE OF KURDISH ACTIVISTS AND OTHERS ARBITRARILY DETAINED IN IRAN

26/02/2021

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We, the undersigned 36 civil society and human rights organizations, call for the urgent attention of the international community to an ongoing wave of arbitrary arrests, incommunicado detention, and enforced disappearances by the Iranian authorities, targeting scores of people from Iran’s disadvantaged Kurdish minority in the provinces of Alborz, Kermanshah, Kurdistan, Tehran, and West Azerbaijan.

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HRC 45

09/09/2020

Documents prepared for the 45th Session of the Human Rights Council by Impact Iran.

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UN Top Rights Body Votes to Extend the Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Iran

23/03/2018

The UN Human Rights Council adopted today a resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran. A majority of 21 states voted in favor of an extension of the mandate , which was opposed by only 7 member states , while 19 states abstained .

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Joint Statement on Iran’s Representative to Human Rights Council — February 2017

27/02/2018

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Impact Iran and its member organizations are appalled by the Iranian government’s decision to select Minister of Justice Seyyed Alireza Avaei as its high-level representative to address the United Nations Human Rights Council on 27 February.

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UPR Joint Submission – Impact Iran and Article 19

19/09/2017

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In this Universal Periodic Review (UPR) midterm report, ARTICLE 19 and Impact Iran assess the progress made by the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran) in implementing freedom of expression related recommendations received during the second cycle in October 2014. Iran’s third cycle review is due to take place November 2019.

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Bahereh Hedayat — Iranian Prisoner of Conscience

08/02/2016

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Bahareh Hedayat is the spokesperson and the only female member of the central committee in charge of public affairs of the Office for Strengthening Unity, the largest university students’ union in Iran. The union is one of the country’s strongest voices for political reform and human rights. She was also a founding member of the One Million Signatures Campaign, a grassroots movement demanding changes to discriminatory laws. The Campaign was the largest women’s rights initiative in postrevolutionary Iran.

Bahareh, whose activities were crucial in building bridges between the student movement and the women’s rights movement in Iran, was arrested in December 2009, at age 28, in connection with protests following the disputed presidential elections. She has been in prison ever since.

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Narges Mohammadi — Iranian Prisoner of Conscience

08/02/2016

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Narges Mohammadi, is the former vice-president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, an NGO founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, and co-founder of the group ‘Step by Step to Stop the Death Penalty’, a coalition aiming to abolish death penalty in Iran. Mohamadi, despite suffering from various health complications, has been a prominent voice for human rights and advocate for victims of right violations inside the country.