UNICEF’s Silence on Iran: Nobel Laureate Demands Action on Children’s Rights Abuses
Shirin Ebadi: UNICEF Headquarters Should Act Where Local Iran Office Has Failed June 11, 2025 ...
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March 14, 2025
UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation
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 Iran ...
March 6, 2025
Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures
This International Women’s Day, the World Must Declare Gender Apartheid a Crime Against Humanity March 6, 2025 — In ...
October 10, 2024
Atrocities Against Girls in Iran Must Be Addressed as World Marks Day of the Girl Child
Child Marriage and Lack of Protection from Violence Threaten Iranian Girls’ Future October 10, 2024 – On this International Day of the ...
August 13, 2024
Iran Uses Cover of Regional Tensions to Crush Its Domestic Opponents
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
UN Uncovers “Crimes Against Humanity” Against Minorities During “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement
August 7, 2024 – The UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran has released a ...
July 27, 2024
Iran’s New President Inaugurated as Human Rights Crisis Deepens
Unelected and Repressive Centers of Power in Iran Remain Untouched by Election World Must ...
June 5, 2024
Iran Quietly Prepares Six More for the Gallows as Presidential Election Looms
Juvenile Offender Among Those Reported to be Hanged Three Quarters of Recorded Executions Worldwide Last Year Were in Iran June 5, 2024 – Iran’s ...
June 12, 2023
Young Man Shot Dead as Iranian Authorities Try to Silence Justice-Seeking Families
Police Kill Cousin at Gravesite of Nine-Year-Old Kian Pirfalak Thirty Relatives of Slain Street Protesters, Mostly Mothers, Detained June 12, ...
April 24, 2023
Iran: School Girls Continue to Face Chemical Attacks, Officials Refuse to Provide Security
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 ...
March 10, 2023
Teachers Across Iran Protest Government’s Inaction on School Gas Attacks
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 ...
March 6, 2023
20 Prominent Iranian Lawyers Call on UN to Investigate School Girl Poisonings
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 ...
February 28, 2023
One Girl Dead, 400 Children Poisoned Amid Attacks on Schools in Iran
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 ...
February 1, 2023
Children’s Rights Advocates, Mainly Women, Targeted in Crackdown on Anti-State Protests in Iran
Women Aiding Vulnerable Children Detained As State Broadens Efforts to Crush Movement for Change February 1, 2023 – Women ...
December 13, 2022
Iran Protests: Children Killed and Tortured to Crush Dissent
Children Beaten on Streets and in State Custody, Assaulted in Schools December 13, 2022 – Children in Iran accused of supporting ...
November 30, 2022
Iran Protests: Juveniles Could Face Death Penalty in Kangaroo “Revolutionary” Court
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
Three More Children Killed as Iranian Merchants Close Shops in Solidarity with Uprising
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, ...
October 13, 2022
Iran Protests: Arrests of School Children Prompt Grave Fears of More Child Killings
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
As Millions Face Poverty, Iran’s Government Dissolves Largest NGO for the Poor
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 ...
April 27, 2022
Interview: Atena Daemi was Jailed in Iran for Advocating Women’s Rights. Now She’s Free and Refusing to be Silent
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 ...
February 10, 2022
Decapitated Child Bride Highlights Iran’s Lack of Protections for Girls and Women
Honor Killings Will Continue as Long as Iran’s Laws Protects Killers Widespread Practice of Child Marriage Means More Young Girls Will Be ...
February 3, 2022
Interview: Suppressing Teachers’ Protests Would be a “Great Risk” for Iran’s Government
Sattar Rahmani, a former teacher and political prisoner in Iran, is an expert on ...
January 14, 2022
UN Decries Imminent Execution of Juvenile Offender Hossein Shahbazi in Iran
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 ...
December 17, 2021
UN Adopts Resolution Criticizing Iran’s Human Rights Abuses
On December 16, 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted draft resolution II, “Situation of human rights in the ...
December 13, 2021
Teachers Across Iran Protest for Fair Pay, Release of Jailed Colleagues
Teachers and supporters protested in the streets of more than 119 Iranian cities across Iran ...