Fact-Finding Mission Cites Widescale Murder, Imprisonment, Torture and Rape UN: Systematic Abuses Continue, Accountability Outside Iran Should be Pursued March 14, 2025 – In a new report based on a two-year investigation, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on ...
This International Women’s Day, the World Must Declare Gender Apartheid a Crime Against Humanity March 6, 2025 — In ...
Child Marriage and Lack of Protection from Violence Threaten Iranian Girls’ Future October 10, 2024 – On this International Day of the Girl Child, ...
Executions, Arrests, Attacks on Women, Abuse of Political Prisoners All Soaring World Must Respond to the Islamic Republic’s Escalating Crimes Against Its Own ...
August 7, 2024 – The UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran has released a ...
Unelected and Repressive Centers of Power in Iran Remain Untouched by Election World Must ...
Juvenile Offender Among Those Reported to be Hanged Three Quarters of Recorded Executions Worldwide Last Year Were in Iran June 5, 2024 – Iran’s ...
Police Kill Cousin at Gravesite of Nine-Year-Old Kian Pirfalak Thirty Relatives of Slain Street Protesters, Mostly Mothers, Detained June 12, ...
Authorities Threaten Students, Families and Teachers While Refusing to Provide Transparent Investigations School Girls and Staff Describe Being Forced to Stay in Affected Buildings While Authorities Dismiss Concerns April 24, 2023 – Five months after the first report of a ...
Arrests, Tear Gas Against Peaceful Protesters Reported by Eyewitnesses Government Dithers While Thousands of Schoolgirls Sickened Amid ongoing poison gas attacks reported at girls’ schools in dozens of cities in Iran, the Coordinating Council of the Iranian Teachers ...
Over 1,000 Students, Mostly Girls, Poisoned by Gas in Iran Since November 2022 March 6, 2023 – Twenty prominent human rights lawyers from Iran today published a letter urgently calling for an independent, joint committee—comprised of experts from the ...
Unfettered Acts of Terror Against School Girls Raise Questions of Government Complicity School Girls Enthusiastically Participated in Major Anti-State Protests February 28, 2023 – Five months into Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, in which girls and women were among ...
Women Aiding Vulnerable Children Detained As State Broadens Efforts to Crush Movement for Change February 1, 2023 – Women ...
Children Beaten on Streets and in State Custody, Assaulted in Schools December 13, 2022 – Children in Iran accused of supporting ...
Governments, UN Must Take Urgent Action to Protect Them November 30, 2022 – At least three juveniles are among 15 individuals in the Iranian ...
November 18, 2022 – In a strong show of support for their country’s growing protest movement, and as children continue to be among those killed by state security forces, merchants in major cities closed their shops this week, ...
Officials Paint Children as Enemies of the State, Claim They’re “Reforming” Kids At Least 28 Children Killed Since September 16, Reports ...
May 26, 2022 – While millions of Iranians are struggling to make ends meet, the Iranian government has shut down the country’s oldest and largest independent non-governmental organization (NGO) focused on poverty alleviation, the Imam Ali Popular ...
When Atena Daemi was growing up in Iran and attending school in a religious-conservative neighborhood in south Tehran, she noticed the many ways in which women were treated differently than men. Girls had to cover almost every ...
Honor Killings Will Continue as Long as Iran’s Laws Protects Killers Widespread Practice of Child Marriage Means More Young Girls Will Be ...
Sattar Rahmani, a former teacher and political prisoner in Iran, is an expert on ...
Session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Another juvenile offender, Hossein Shahbazi, is in imminent danger of being executed in Iran after being sentenced to death as a ...
On December 16, 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted draft resolution II, “Situation of human rights in the ...
Teachers and supporters protested in the streets of more than 119 Iranian cities across Iran ...
The United Nations has strongly condemned the execution of child offender Arman Abdolali in a press release republished below. Comment by UN Human ...
