These Women and Men Inspired Us All
A grieving mother who vowed to continue pursuing her slain son’s pursuit of freedom. A housewife who lost her life while trying to save a victim of state violence. A prisoner of conscience who ...
Children's Rights
November 20, 2019
Children in Iran Should Be Protected from Numerous Rights Violations
November 20 Marks Universal Children's Day Begun in 1954 by the UN, Universal Children’s Day, (now called World Children's Day) is observed each year on November 20 to promote the welfare of the world’s children. The UN’s Declaration of the ...
October 16, 2019
Reign of Evin Prison’s New Director Begins with Denial of Political Prisoners’ Rights
Female Prisoners of Conscience Denied Phone Contact with Children The appointment of Gholamreza Ziaei, former director of two disreputable prisons in Iran, as the new chief of Evin Prison on July 27, 2019, has been followed by ...
October 15, 2019
Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi Has Been Separated from Her Children for Five Years and Counting
Imprisoned human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has not been able to hold her two children since 2015, for nearly five years, her mother Ozra Bazargan wrote in an open letter decrying the injustice her daughter is ...
October 11, 2019
Iran Must Confront Its Child Protection Crisis
On the International Day of the Girl Child, All States Urged to Address Needs of Girl Children Child Marriage, Lack of Protection against Abuse, Juvenile Executions Key Issues in Iran October 11, 2019—On the International Day of the ...
October 8, 2019
Education For All
Millions of children with disabilities in Iran are being denied education. Center for Human Rights in Iran & Human Rights Watch interviewed dozens of people in Iran with kids who’ve been denied school enrollment because they’ve been unjustly labeled as “uneducable.” ...
October 7, 2019
Children Born to Non-Iranian Fathers Win Right to File for Citizenship—With a Catch
Amendment Authorizes Intelligence Agencies to Investigate Applicants’ Parents Legislation granting a citizenship application option to Iranian children born to foreign fathers was approved by the country’s legislative watchdog, the Guardian Council, on October 2, 2019. Four years in ...
July 16, 2019
Fact Sheet: Children in Iran Are Unprotected from Abuse and Severe Rights Violations
July 16, 2019—At a time when international headlines are focused on Iran, little attention is given to the millions of children in the country who are subjected to a broad range of abuses and rights violations, including ...
May 17, 2019
New Legislation, If Approved, Will Give Citizenship Rights to Children Born to Iranian Women
In an important step to eliminate a fundamental and longstanding discriminatory restriction on Iranian women and their children, Iran’s Parliament overwhelmingly ratified the “Granting Citizenship to Children Resulting from Marriage Between Iranian Women and Non-Iranian Men” on ...
May 9, 2019
Iran’s Education Minister Cracks Down on School Kids’ Dance Challenge
Iran’s minister of education has called on the police to trace the “source” of what he described as “disturbing videos” of schoolchildren cheerfully dancing to a pop song by US-based Iranian singer Sasy Mankan. The videos are part of an online “dance challenge” that features ...
May 9, 2019
Iran’s Minister of Education Sees “Plot” Behind Videos of Dancing Schoolchildren
Iran’s minister of education has called on the police to trace the “source” of what he described as “disturbing videos” of schoolchildren cheerfully dancing to a pop song by US-based Iranian singer Sasy Mankan. The videos are ...
May 3, 2019
UN Stresses Execution of Child Offenders in Iran “Absolutely Prohibited” by International Law
UN, GENEVA (3 May 2019) – The execution of two 17-year-old boys in Iran on charges of rape and robbery, after a trial that appears to have seriously breached fundamental due process guarantees, is deplorable, ...