Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran on December 18, 2013. The resolution was passed in the third committee during sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly in November 2013 by a vote of 86 in favor, 36 against, with 61 abstentions.
GENEVA (13 December 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic
Dr. Shaheed will be on a panel this week in London for the launch of a report on online repression
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The Special Rapporteur’s October 2013 report provides an overview of the prevailing human rights situation, with a focus on systemic issues that pose obstacles to the ability of the Islamic Republic of Iran to comply with its international human rights obligations.
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The present report is submitted in accordance with General Assembly resolution 67/182, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to report to it at its sixty-eighth session. The report reflects the patterns and trends in the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran and provides information on the progress made in the implementation of the resolution, including recommendations to improve its implementation. In its resolution 67/182, the General Assembly called upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to address the substantive concerns highlighted in the previous report of the Secretary General (A/67/327) and to respect fully its human rights obligations, in law and in practice, in relation to a number of specifically identified concerns.
Contains detainee cases for the March 2013 report, based on interviews and secondary research, in the following chapters:
I. Human Rights Activists & Political Prisoners
II. Juvenile Offenders
III. Journalists
IV. Religious Minorities
V. Ethnic Minorities
VI. Student Activists
VII. LGBT
Women
GENEVA (23 September 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic
The Islamic Republic provides a reply to Special Rapporteur ‘s October 2013 report on the situation of human rights in Iran, which was presented to the UNGA’s 3rd committee. This reply was submitted to the SR during drafting and the comments were incorporated into the final report.
A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today warned that unreasonable limitations placed on the right of Iranian citizens to stand for Presidential office, discrimination against women candidates for elections and ongoing restrictions on freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly, constitute a serious violations of rights guaranteed by international law.
GENEVA (13 May 2013) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today called on the Iranian authorities
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The present report is submitted in accordance with General Assembly resolution 67/182, in which the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit an interim report to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-second session. The report reflects the patterns and trends in the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran and provides information on the progress made in the implementation of the resolution, including recommendations to improve its implementation. In its resolution 67/182, the General Assembly called upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to address the substantive concerns highlighted in the previous report of the Secretary-General (A/67/327) and to respect fully its human rights obligations, in law and in practice, in relation to a number of specifically identified concerns.
GENEVA (12 March 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic
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This supplement provides documented cases of detained women that served as part of the basis of Dr. Shaheed’s March 2013
This supplement provides documented cases of detained members of the LGBT community that served as part of the basis of
This supplement provides documented cases of detained student activists that served as part of the basis of Dr. Shaheed’s March
This supplement provides documented cases of detained ethnic minorities that served as part of the basis of Dr. Shaheed’s March
This supplement provides documented cases of detained religious minorities that served as part of the basis of Dr. Shaheed’s March
This supplement provides documented cases of detained journalists that served as part of the basis of Dr. Shaheed’s March 2013
This supplement provides documented cases of detained juvenile offenders that served as the basis of Dr. Shaheed’s March 2013 report
This supplement provides documented cases of detained human rights activists and political prisoners that served as part of the basis
