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Human Rights at the United Nations

General Assembly Resolutions (GA) Secretary-General Reports (GA) Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission Universal Periodic Review Resolutions (HRC) Secretary-General Reports (HRC) The Special Procedures High Commissioner Treaty Bodies International Human Rights Law – ...

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 ...

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LGBT Cases Supporting the Special Rapporteur’s March 2013 Report

This supplement provides documented cases of detained members of the LGBT community that served as part of the basis of Dr. Shaheed’s March 2013 report presented to the UN Human Rights Council. The documentation is based on primary interviews and secondary research conducted for the March 2013 report (Click here for ...

English, Legislation Monitor

Legislation Monitor: The Selection Law

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Coalition Members, English,

Defenders of Human Rights Center

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Founded in 2001, the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) is an Iranian human rights organization which advocates for the rights of women, political prisoners, and minorities in Iran. Its president is 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, and its vice president is 2023 Nobel Peace Prize ...

Advocacy, Dr. Javaid Rehman, English, HRC 51, Human Rights Council, Special Rapporteur

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...