July 5 2023 Delivered by Roya Boroumand I am delivering this statement on behalf of ARTICLE 19, the coalition Impact Iran and Front Line Defenders. We welcome the investigation work of the Fact-Finding Mission and look forward to the precedent it will play in documenting the rights violations and international ...
11 May 2023 As organizations dedicated to promoting respect for human rights, Impact Iran and its members express their profound dismay and concern at the recent appointment of Mr. Ali Bahreini, the Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations (UN), as Chair-Rapporteur of the UN ...
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 ...
۶ ژوئن ۲۰۲۳ بیانیه مشترک ما امضاکنندگان این بیانیه عمیقا نسبت به افزایش تکان‌دهنده اعدام‌ها در جمهوری اسلامی ایران ظرف چند ماه گذشته نگران و ناراحت هستیم. این اعدام‌ها عامدانه به گونه‌ای طراحی شده‌اند تا در میان مردم ایران ایجاد ترس کنند و در پی جنبش اعتراضات بی‌سابقه که هشت ...
Impact Iran applauds the German Government’s recent announcement of its decision to support a Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council on the grave human rights situation in Iran, with a view to “establish[ing] a UN mechanism” to ensure that “evidence can be collected and documented.“ We welcome German ...
As more and more people in Iran are taking to the street – at the peril of their life – to demand truth and justice and for the Government to respect their fundamental rights, the community of states must not remain silent. States should use opportunities presented by the current ...
We, the undersigned, are deeply alarmed and appalled by the chilling surge in executions by the Islamic Republic of Iran over the past few months, including the recent wave of executions targeting protesters. These executions are deliberately designed to spread fear among the Iranian population and quash any form of ...
We are writing to raise our deep concerns about the Iranian authorities’ mobilization of their well-honed machinery of repression to ruthlessly crackdown on current nationwide protests. The United Nations Human Rights Council should act as a matter of urgency by holding a special session and — given the gravity of ...
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 ...
