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Legislation Monitor, Research

Legislation Monitor: Latest on the Internet Bill

Legislation Monitor دیده‌بان قانونگذاری ⬥ Latest on the Internet Bill In the first working week of the Persian new year, a group of MPs (185  representatives) signed a letter asking the parliament to reconsider its previous vote and return the consideration of this bill to standard procedure.[1] Last year, in ...

Advocacy, Submissions

Recent Impact Iran HRC Submissions

Year Authors Subject Link 2020 The Advocates for Human Rights The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty Iran Human Rights Impact Iran ECPM ICCPR ⬤ 2020 Abdorrahman Boroumand Center Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Impact Iran Human Rights Activists in Iran Right to a Fair Trial ⬤ Due Process 2020 ...

Engaging the UN and Regional Partners, English,

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

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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 ...

Advocacy, Human Rights Council, Persian

تلاش ایران برای اجتناب از مسئولیت‌پذیری از طریق بازدید یکی از گزارشگران سازمان ملل

در حالی که مقامات ایران فردا آماده استقبال از گزارشگر ویژه سازمان ملل در موضوع اقدامات اجباری یک‌جانبه می‌شوند[1]، ما تلاش دولت ایران در استفاده‌ی کلبی‌مسلکانه از نظام نظارت حقوق بشر سازمان ملل برای پرت کردن توجه‌ها از کارنامه آن در زمینه نقض حقوق بشر، که به شکل گسترده ثبت ...

Dr. Javaid Rehman, English, Human Rights Council, Special Rapporteur, The Special Procedures

HRC49 Interactive Dialogue: UNSR Javaid Rehman on the human rights situation in Iran

On Thursday, March 17, Javaid Rehman, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, presented his report during the 49th session of the Human Rights Council. Mr. Rehman highlighted widespread human rights abuses and drew attention to the system-wide lack of accountability ...

Advocacy, English, General Assembly and Third Committee

Joint civil society letter calling on UN member states to support the resolution on human rights in Iran at the UNGA

TO: All Permanent Missions to the United Nations in New York Your Excellencies, The undersigned national, regional and international civil society organizations urge your government to support draft resolution A/C.3/76/L.28 on the promotion and protection of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is presented to the Third ...

Advocacy, Resources

The Iran Rights Index: A Project of Impact Iran

The Iran Rights Index (IRIx) is a flexible web platform that catalogues and assesses compliance with recommendations made by various United Nations human rights mechanisms to the Islamic Republic of Iran. At launch, the Index covers recommendations made by four UN Treaty Bodies Human Rights Committee Committee on Economic, Social ...

Human Rights Council

HRC – Special Session

Joint Call for a UNHRC special session on the situation of human rights in Iran in relation to the repression of popular protests A letter signed by a number of human rights CSOs asking for a special session of the Human Rights Council to address the situation of the recent ...

Advocacy, English, Human Rights Council

Iran attempts to avoid accountability through UN visit

As Iranian authorities prepare to welcome the UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures tomorrow[1], we denounce the Government’s instrumentalization of the system of UN human rights monitors in a cynical attempt to deflect attention from its well-documented record of human rights violations. The UN’s announcement of the Special Rapporteur’s ...

Advocacy, English,

Impact Iran Coalition Statement on Human Rights and the JCPOA

As talks around the nuclear deal conclude in Vienna, “human rights are non-negotiable” While we applaud the European Parliament for recently adopting a strong resolution on the death penalty in Iran, we are concerned that the European Union (EU) and other negotiators in Vienna are being invited to compromise on ...