Fact Cards: Iran, Women’s Rights & the CSW Myth nº1: Calls to remove Iran from the CSW’s membership came from a member-state initiative. FACT: Calls for removing Iran’s membership from the CSW first came from from Iranian women and men, just like the calls for accountability that resulted in the ...
Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Cc: Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State Jake Sullivan, National Security Council Advisor Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US Representative to the United Nations Dear President Biden: The death of 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini in state ...
Legislation Monitor دیدهبان قانونگذاری ⬥ The Selection Law Legislative Item # Registration Number: 469 Draft Legislation Title Selection of managers and employees of the Islamic Republic عنوان پیش نویس قانون گزینش مدیران و کارگزاران نظام جمهوری اسلامی Date of Submission May 25, 2021 تاریخ تحویل ۲۵ اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۰ Cosponsors The ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Joint letter from Impact Iran and it's members calling on the United Nations presence in Iran to address human rights concerns as it develops a new cooperation framwork with ...
10 December 2022 New York In solidarity with Iranian women demanding their rights at the risk of their life and freedom, Impact Iran urges states to revoke the Islamic Republic of Iran’s membership of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (“CSW”). We welcome the leadership of UN member ...
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 ...
The Islamic Assembly (known as Majlis) is the only institution authorized to make law, according to Article 58 of the Constitution. Types of bills that can be introduced to legislators: Parliamentary ...
We, the undersigned human rights and civil society organizations, are alarmed by Iranian parliament’s move to ratify the general outlines of the draconian “Regulatory System for Cyberspace Services Bill,” previously known as the “User Protection Bill” and referred to hereafter as “the Bill.” If passed, the Bill will violate an ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Read the full letter from the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to All Permanent Missions regarding the Arria-formula meeting entitled “Ongoing Protests in Iran” “My Government has always been and continues to be, fully committed to the promotion and protection of human rights as well as fulfilling ...
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 ...
TO: Member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council Your Excellency, We, the undersigned Iranian and international human rights organisations, call on your country to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran at the 49th ...
On Tuesday, March 8th, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet gave her global update to the 49th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. Her remarks included an update on the human rights situation in Iran, which echoed UN Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman’s concerns regarding ...
HRC 48 Side Event: Data For Rights And Accountability in Iran In recent years, human rights organizations have developed a range of online tools that have strengthened the capacities of rights defenders to advance evidence-based reporting and advocacy aimed at generating a culture of accountability and transparency in pursuit of ...
